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20242026
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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Medical Triage as Pairwise Ranking: A Benchmark for Urgency in Patient Portal Messages

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy Burdick +4

Medical triage is the task of allocating medical resources and prioritizing patients based on medical need. This paper introduces the first large-scale public dataset for studying…

cs.CL2026

How Much Would a Clinician Edit This Draft? Evaluating LLM Alignment for Patient Message Response Drafting

Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Sarah E. Greer +4

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in drafting responses to patient portal messages, yet their integration into clinical workflows raises various concerns, including whether…

cs.CL2025

REGen: A Reliable Evaluation Framework for Generative Event Argument Extraction

Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak +1

Event argument extraction identifies arguments for predefined event roles in text. Existing work evaluates this task with exact match (EM), where predicted arguments must align exa…

cs.CL2025

Follow-up Question Generation For Enhanced Patient-Provider Conversations

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy Burdick +3

Follow-up question generation is an essential feature of dialogue systems as it can reduce conversational ambiguity and enhance modeling complex interactions. Conversational contex…

cs.AI2024

In-Context Learning for Preserving Patient Privacy: A Framework for Synthesizing Realistic Patient Portal Messages

Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy E. Burdick +1

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have seen a large and sustained influx in patient portal messages, significantly contributing to clinician burnout. To the best of our knowl…

cs.CL2024

Explicit, Implicit, and Scattered: Revisiting Event Extraction to Capture Complex Arguments

Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak +1

Prior works formulate the extraction of event-specific arguments as a span extraction problem, where event arguments are explicit -- i.e. assumed to be contiguous spans of text in…