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most citedMulti-Grained Named Entity Recognition

98 citations · 193 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

A Cost-Effective Multimodal LLM Reasoning Framework for Question Answering over Irregular Clinical Time Series

Frank Nie, Ethan B Liu, Yuan Zhu +2

Question answering (QA) over irregular clinical time series (ICTS) plays a pivotal role in a wide range of healthcare applications. Although recent multimodal time-series large lan…

cs.CL2026

CLIR-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Question Answering over Irregular Clinical Time Series

Frank Nie, Ethan B. Liu, Yuan Zhu +3

Clinical time series are central to patient monitoring, risk assessment, and clinical decision support. However, they are often sparse, irregularly sampled, and asynchronous, makin…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Prophet Attention: Predicting Attention with Future Attention for Image Captioning

Fenglin Liu, Xuancheng Ren, Xian Wu +3

Recently, attention based models have been used extensively in many sequence-to-sequence learning systems. Especially for image captioning, the attention based models are expected…

cs.CL2021

Audio-Oriented Multimodal Machine Comprehension: Task, Dataset and Model

Zhiqi Huang, Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu +4

While Machine Comprehension (MC) has attracted extensive research interests in recent years, existing approaches mainly belong to the category of Machine Reading Comprehension task…

cs.CV2021★ 21 cited

Exploring and Distilling Posterior and Prior Knowledge for Radiology Report Generation

Fenglin Liu, Xian Wu, Shen Ge +2

Automatically generating radiology reports can improve current clinical practice in diagnostic radiology. On one hand, it can relieve radiologists from the heavy burden of report w…

cs.CL2020

Automatic Distractor Generation for Multiple Choice Questions in Standard Tests

Zhaopeng Qiu, Xian Wu, Wei Fan

To assess the knowledge proficiency of a learner, multiple choice question is an efficient and widespread form in standard tests. However, the composition of the multiple choice qu…

cs.AI2020★ 6 cited

Commonsense Evidence Generation and Injection in Reading Comprehension

Ye Liu, Tao Yang, Zeyu You +2

Human tackle reading comprehension not only based on the given context itself but often rely on the commonsense beyond. To empower the machine with commonsense reasoning, in this p…

cs.CL2019★ 98 cited

Multi-Grained Named Entity Recognition

Congying Xia, Chenwei Zhang, Tao Yang +6

This paper presents a novel framework, MGNER, for Multi-Grained Named Entity Recognition where multiple entities or entity mentions in a sentence could be non-overlapping or totall…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

Entity Synonym Discovery via Multipiece Bilateral Context Matching

Chenwei Zhang, Yaliang Li, Nan Du +2

Being able to automatically discover synonymous entities in an open-world setting benefits various tasks such as entity disambiguation or knowledge graph canonicalization. Existing…

cs.CL2018★ 9 cited

Multi-Task Learning with Multi-View Attention for Answer Selection and Knowledge Base Question Answering

Yang Deng, Yuexiang Xie, Yaliang Li +5

Answer selection and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are two important tasks of question answering (QA) systems. Existing methods solve these two tasks separately, which r…

cs.CL2018★ 39 cited

Joint Slot Filling and Intent Detection via Capsule Neural Networks

Chenwei Zhang, Yaliang Li, Nan Du +2

Being able to recognize words as slots and detect the intent of an utterance has been a keen issue in natural language understanding. The existing works either treat slot filling a…

cs.AI2018★ 2 cited

On the Generation of Medical Question-Answer Pairs

Sheng Shen, Yaliang Li, Nan Du +7

Question answering (QA) has achieved promising progress recently. However, answering a question in real-world scenarios like the medical domain is still challenging, due to the req…

cs.AI2018★ 5 cited

Finding Similar Medical Questions from Question Answering Websites

Yaliang Li, Liuyi Yao, Nan Du +5

The past few years have witnessed the flourishing of crowdsourced medical question answering (Q&A) websites. Patients who have medical information demands tend to post questions ab…

cs.DB2018★ 2 cited

MedTruth: A Semi-supervised Approach to Discovering Knowledge Condition Information from Multi-Source Medical Data

Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Ying Shen +4

Knowledge Graph (KG) contains entities and the relations between entities. Due to its representation ability, KG has been successfully applied to support many medical/healthcare ta…

cs.CL2017★ 1 cited

Bringing Semantic Structures to User Intent Detection in Online Medical Queries

Chenwei Zhang, Nan Du, Wei Fan +3

The Internet has revolutionized healthcare by offering medical information ubiquitously to patients via web search. The healthcare status, complex medical information needs of pati…

cs.DB2016

Multi-source Hierarchical Prediction Consolidation

Chenwei Zhang, Sihong Xie, Yaliang Li +3

In big data applications such as healthcare data mining, due to privacy concerns, it is necessary to collect predictions from multiple information sources for the same instance, wi…

cs.DB2015★ 8 cited

A Survey on Truth Discovery

Yaliang Li, Jing Gao, Chuishi Meng +5

Thanks to information explosion, data for the objects of interest can be collected from increasingly more sources. However, for the same object, there usually exist conflicts among…