Parth Mehta
2025
PNLP at MEDIQA-OE 2025: A Zero-Shot Prompting Strategy with Gemini for Medical Order Extraction
Parth Mehta
Proceedings of the 7th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
Parth Mehta
Proceedings of the 7th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
Medical order extraction from doctor-patient conversations presents a critical challenge in reducing clinical documentation burden and ensuring accurate capture of patient care instructions. This paper describes our system for the MEDIQA-OE 2025 shared task using the ACI-Bench and PriMock57 datasets, which achieved second place on the public leaderboard with an average score of 0.6014 across four metrics: description ROUGE-1 F1, reason ROUGE-1 F1, order-type strict F1, and provenance multi-label F1. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on fine-tuned biomedical language models, we demonstrate that a carefully engineered zero-shot prompting strategy using Gemini 2.5 Pro can achieve competitive performance without requiring model training or GPU resources. Our approach employs a deterministic state-machine prompt design incorporating chain-of-thought reasoning, self-verification protocols, and structured JSON output generation. The system particularly excels in reason extraction, achieving 0.4130 ROUGE-1 F1, the highest among the top performing teams. Our results suggest that advanced prompt engineering can effectively bridge the gap between general-purpose large language models and specialized clinical NLP tasks, offering a computationally efficient and immediately deployable alternative to traditional fine-tuning approaches with significant implications for resource-constrained healthcare settings.
2016
From Extractive to Abstractive Summarization: A Journey
Parth Mehta
Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop
Parth Mehta
Proceedings of the ACL 2016 Student Research Workshop