Vishakha Sharma


2024

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Lexicans at Chemotimelines 2024: Chemotimeline Chronicles - Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for Temporal Relations Extraction in Oncological Electronic Health Records
Vishakha Sharma | Andres Fernandez | Andrei Ioanovici | David Talby | Frederik Buijs
Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop

Automatic generation of chemotherapy treatment timelines from electronic health records (EHRs) notes not only streamlines clinical workflows but also promotes better coordination and improvements in cancer treatment and quality of care. This paper describes the submission to the Chemotimelines 2024 shared task that aims to automatically build a chemotherapy treatment timeline for each patient using their complete set of EHR notes, spanning various sources such as primary care provider, oncology, discharge summaries, emergency department, pathology, radiology, and more. We report results from two large language models (LLMs), namely Llama 2 and Mistral 7B, applied to the shared task data using zero-shot prompting.

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Overview of the 9th Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) Shared Tasks at ACL 2024 – Large Language Models and Generalizability for Social Media NLP
Dongfang Xu | Guillermo Garcia | Lisa Raithel | Philippe Thomas | Roland Roller | Eiji Aramaki | Shoko Wakamiya | Shuntaro Yada | Pierre Zweigenbaum | Karen O’Connor | Sai Samineni | Sophia Hernandez | Yao Ge | Swati Rajwal | Sudeshna Das | Abeed Sarker | Ari Klein | Ana Schmidt | Vishakha Sharma | Raul Rodriguez-Esteban | Juan Banda | Ivan Amaro | Davy Weissenbacher | Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Proceedings of The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications (SMM4H 2024) Workshop and Shared Tasks

For the past nine years, the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) shared tasks have promoted community-driven development and evaluation of advanced natural language processing systems to detect, extract, and normalize health-related information in publicly available user-generated content. This year, #SMM4H included seven shared tasks in English, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish from Twitter, Reddit, and health forums. A total of 84 teams from 22 countries registered for #SMM4H, and 45 teams participated in at least one task. This represents a growth of 180% and 160% in registration and participation, respectively, compared to the last iteration. This paper provides an overview of the tasks and participating systems. The data sets remain available upon request, and new systems can be evaluated through the post-evaluation phase on CodaLab.