@inproceedings{douglas-2025-team,
    title = "Team {M}ono{L}ink at the {ALTA} Shared Task 2025: Synonym-Aware Retrieval with Guideline-Aware Re-Ranking for {M}ed{DRA} Normalization",
    author = "Douglas, James C.",
    editor = "Kummerfeld, Jonathan K.  and
      Joshi, Aditya  and
      Dras, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Sydney, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/more-markup/2025.alta-main.15/",
    pages = "208--215",
    ISBN = "1834-7037",
    abstract = "We describe Team MonoLink{'}s system for the ALTA 2025 Shared Task on normalizing patient-authored adverse drug event (ADE) mentions to MedDRA Lowest Level Terms (LLTs). Our pipeline combines recall-oriented, synonym-augmented candidate retrieval with cross-encoder re-ranking and a guideline-aware LLM discriminator. On the official hidden test set, our submission tied for first place, achieving an Accuracy@1 of 39.8{\%}, Accuracy@5 of 78.3{\%}, and Accuracy@10 of 85.5{\%}."
}