1 code implementation • EMNLP (newsum) 2021 • Wenyi Tay, Xiuzhen Zhang, Stephen Wan, Sarvnaz Karimi
For many NLP applications of online reviews, comparison of two opinion-bearing sentences is key.
no code implementations • ALTA 2021 • Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Maciej Rybinski, Zhenchang Xing
Transformer encoder models exhibit strong performance in single-domain applications.
no code implementations • ALTA 2021 • Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing
Contemporary methods use fine-tuned transformer encoder semantic representations of the classification token in the text-pair sequence from the transformer’s final layer for class prediction.
no code implementations • ALTA 2020 • Vincent Nguyen, Maciek Rybinski, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing
Finding information related to a pandemic of a novel disease raises new challenges for information seeking and retrieval, as the new information becomes available gradually.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2024 • Anuradha Wickramarachchi, Shakila Tonni, Sonali Majumdar, Sarvnaz Karimi, Sulev Kõks, Brendan Hosking, Jordi Rambla, Natalie A. Twine, Yatish Jain, Denis C. Bauer
Enabling clinicians and researchers to directly interact with global genomic data resources by removing technological barriers is vital for medical genomics.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2024 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Biaoyan Fang
Effective summarisation evaluation metrics enable researchers and practitioners to compare different summarisation systems efficiently.
no code implementations • 28 May 2024 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Abeed Sarker, Ben Hachey, Cecile Paris
Domain generalisation - the ability of a machine learning model to perform well on new, unseen domains (text types) - is under-explored.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2024 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Nathan O'Callaghan
In addition to the areas where NLP has successfully been utilised, we also identify the areas where more research is needed to unlock the value of patients' records regarding data collection, task formulation and downstream applications.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2022 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi
Information Extraction from scientific literature can be challenging due to the highly specialised nature of such text.
no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey, Cecile Paris
Recent studies on domain-specific BERT models show that effectiveness on downstream tasks can be improved when models are pretrained on in-domain data.
Ranked #3 on Clinical Concept Extraction on 2010 i2b2/VA
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2020 • Vincent Nguyen, Maciek Rybinski, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing
Finding answers related to a pandemic of a novel disease raises new challenges for information seeking and retrieval, as the new information becomes available gradually.
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey, Cecile Paris
Unlike widely used Named Entity Recognition (NER) data sets in generic domains, biomedical NER data sets often contain mentions consisting of discontinuous spans.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing
We report on our system for textual inference and question entailment in the medical domain for the ACL BioNLP 2019 Shared Task, MEDIQA.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Adith Iyer, Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris
The introduction of figurative usage detection results in an average improvement of 2. 21% F-score of personal health mention detection, in the case of the feature augmentation-based approach.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Distributed representations of text can be used as features when training a statistical classifier.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Nicky Ringland, Xiang Dai, Ben Hachey, Sarvnaz Karimi, Cecile Paris, James R. Curran
Named entity recognition (NER) is widely used in natural language processing applications and downstream tasks.
no code implementations • ALTA 2019 • Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has been an attractive approach to deal with limited labeled datasets or leverage related tasks, for a variety of NLP problems.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ben Hachey, Cecile Paris
Word vectors and Language Models (LMs) pretrained on a large amount of unlabelled data can dramatically improve various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.
Ranked #1 on Named Entity Recognition (NER) on WetLab
no code implementations • ALTA 2019 • Wenyi Tay, Aditya Joshi, Xiuzhen Zhang, Sarvnaz Karimi, Stephen Wan
Opinion summarisation requires to correctly pair two types of semantic information: (1) aspect or opinion target; and (2) polarity of candidate and reference summaries.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2019 • Aditya Joshi, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, Cecile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Epidemic intelligence deals with the detection of disease outbreaks using formal (such as hospital records) and informal sources (such as user-generated text on the web) of information.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Aditya Joshi, Xiang Dai, Sarvnaz Karimi, Ross Sparks, C{\'e}cile Paris, C Raina MacIntyre
Vaccination behaviour detection deals with predicting whether or not a person received/was about to receive a vaccine.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Sarvnaz Karimi, Xiang Dai, Hamed Hassanzadeh, Anthony Nguyen
Diagnosis autocoding services and research intend to both improve the productivity of clinical coders and the accuracy of the coding.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2015 • Alejandro Metke-Jimenez, Sarvnaz Karimi
Our evaluations were performed in a controlled setting on a common corpus which is a collection of medical forum posts annotated with concepts and linked to controlled vocabularies such as MedDRA and SNOMED CT. To our knowledge, our study is the first to systematically examine the effect of popular concept extraction methods in the area of signal detection for adverse reactions.