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Medication Extraction and Mining play an important role in healthcare NLP research due to its practical applications in hospital settings, such as their mapping into standard clinical knowledge bases (SNOMED-CT, BNF, etc.).
In this work, we investigate state-of-the-art LLMs in text mining tasks on medications and their related attributes such as dosage, route, strength, and adverse effects. In addition, we explore different ensemble learning methods (\textsc{Stack-Ensemble} and \textsc{Voting-Ensemble}) to augment the model performances from individual LLMs. Our ensemble learning result demonstrated better performances than individually fine-tuned base models BERT, RoBERTa, RoBERTa-L, BioBERT, BioClinicalBERT, BioMedRoBERTa, ClinicalBERT, and PubMedBERT across general and specific domains. 
Finally, we build up an entity linking function to map extracted medical terminologies into the SNOMED-CT codes and the British National Formulary (BNF) codes, which are further mapped to the Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d), and ICD.

NAACL 2025

InsightBuddy-AI: Medication Extraction and Entity Linking using Large Language Models and Ensemble Learning

medication extraction

clinical natural language processing

ensemble learning

entity linking

named entity recognition

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### Welcome to 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Most studies on the linguistic information used by BERT have focused on English. This study examines a monolingual German BERT model using a semantic classification task on newspaper articles, analyzing the linguistic features influencing classification decisions through SHAP values. We use a corpus with gold-standard annotations for a set of linguistic features, including POS, inflectional morphology, phrasal, clausal, and dependency structures. Semantic features of nouns are evaluated via the GermaNet ontology using shared hypernyms. Our results indicate that the features identified in English also affect classification of the German BERT model but suggests important language- and task-specific features as well.

Linguistic Features in German BERT: The Role of Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics in Multi-Class Text Classification

Neural codec language models (or codec LMs) are emerging as a powerful framework for audio generation tasks like text-to-speech (TTS). These models leverage advancements in language modeling and residual vector quantization (RVQ)-based audio codecs, which compress audios into discrete codes for LMs to process. Despite the close interdependence of codecs and LMs in these systems, research on codecs and LMs has largely remained siloed. In this work, we propose three techniques for better codec-LM co-design: (i) a frame-wise codec encoder that improves both LM log-likelihood and end-to-end TTS metrics, (ii) LM codebook level dropout, a method to efficiently navigate a portion of the codec-LM design space by training a single LM, and (iii) increased codec frame duration, which we show can accelerate inference while maintaining end-to-end performance. Our experiments demonstrate that combining all three co-design techniques results in doubled inference speed, and improvements in intelligibility, audio quality, and speaker control in TTS relative to a siloed baseline.

Towards Codec-LM Co-design for Neural Codec Language Models

Machine translation for low-resource language pairs is a challenging task. This task could become extremely difficult once a speaker uses code switching. We present the first code-switching Kazakh-Russian parallel corpus.
Additionally, we propose a method to build a machine translation model for code-switched Kazakh-Russian language pair with no labeled data. Our method is basing on generation of synthetic data. This method results in a model beating an existing commercial system by human evaluation.

Low-resource Machine Translation for Code-switched Kazakh-Russian Language Pair

In recommender systems, users often seek the~\textit{best} products through indirect, vague, or under-specified queries, such as "best shoes for trail running". Such queries, also referred to as, implicit superlative queries pose a significant challenge for standard retrieval and ranking systems, as they lack an explicit mention of attributes and require identifying and reasoning over complex attributes. In this work, we explore if Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve product recommendation for such queries. As a first step, we propose a novel four-point schema for annotating the best product candidates for superlative queries and introduce a dataset, SUPPER, paired with LLM-based product annotations. We then empirically evaluate several existing retrieval and ranking approaches on our new dataset, providing insights and discussing their integration into real-world e-commerce production systems.

Show me the best! Generative Product Recommendation for Implicit Superlative Queries

This study examines performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), focusing on implicit aspect extraction in novel domains. Using a synthetic sports feedback dataset, we evaluate open-weight LLMs' ability to extract aspect-polarity pairs and propose a metric for implicit aspect extraction. Our findings reveal both the promise and limitations of LLMs in ABSA tasks.

From Annotation to Adaptation: Metrics, Synthetic Data, and Aspect Extraction for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models

We consider the well-known and important tasks of clone detection and information retrieval for source code. The most standard setup is to search clones inside the same language code snippets. But it is also useful to find code snippets with identical behaviour in different programming languages. Nevertheless multi- and cross-lingual clone detection has been little studied in literature. We present a novel training procedure, cross-consistency training (CCT) leveraging cross-lingual similarity, that we apply to train language models on source code in various programming languages. We show that this training is effective both for encoder- and decoder-based models.
The trained encoder-based CCT-LM model
%and fine-tuned with CCT,
achieves a new state of the art on POJ-104 (monolingual C++ clone detection benchmark) with 96.73\% MAP and AdvTest (monolingual Python code search benchmark) with 47.18\% MRR. The decoder-based CCT-LM model shows comparable performance in these tasks. In addition, we formulate the multi- and cross-lingual clone detection problem and present XCD, a new benchmark dataset produced from CodeForces submissions.

CCT-Code: Cross-Consistency Training for Multilingual Clone Detection and Code Search

We introduce **SPY Dataset**: a novel synthetic dataset for the task of **Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection**, underscoring the significance of protecting PII in modern data processing. Our research innovates by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate a dataset that emulates real-world PII scenarios. Through evaluation, we validate the dataset's quality, providing a benchmark for PII detection. Comparative analyses reveal that while PII and Named Entity Recognition (NER) share similarities, **dedicated NER models exhibit limitations** when applied to PII-specific contexts. This work contributes to the field by making the generation methodology and the generated dataset publicly [accessible](https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SPY_Dataset), thereby enabling further research and development in this field.

SPY: Enhancing Privacy with Synthetic PII Detection Dataset

Code-generating Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential tools in modern software development, enhancing productivity and accelerating development. This paper aims to investigate the fine-tuning of code-generating LLMs using Reinforcement Learning and Direct Preference Optimization, further improving their performance. To achieve this, we enhance the training data for the reward model with the help of symbolic execution techniques, ensuring more comprehensive and objective data. With symbolic execution, we create a custom dataset that better captures the nuances in code evaluation. Our reward models, fine-tuned on this dataset, demonstrate significant improvements over the baseline, CodeRL, in estimating the quality of generated code. Our code-generating LLMs, trained with the help of reward model feedback, achieve similar results compared to the CodeRL benchmark.

Integrating Symbolic Execution into the Fine-Tuning of Code-Generating LLMs

Existing in-context learning (ICL) methods for relation extraction (RE) often prioritize language similarity over structural similarity, which can lead to overlooking entity relationships. To address this, we propose an AMR-enhanced retrieval-based ICL method for RE. Our model retrieves in-context examples based on semantic structure similarity between task inputs and training samples. We first conduct the experiments in supervised setting on four standard English RE datasets, results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on three datasets and competitive results on the fourth in the supervised setting. Furthermore, our method outperforms baselines by a large margin across all datasets in the more demanding unsupervised setting.

AMR-RE: Abstract Meaning Representations for Retrieval-Based In-Context Learning in Relation Extraction

Annotator perspectives are crucial in subjective NLP tasks, yet most models rely on aggregated labels, overlooking demographic variation. We introduce the Annotator-Wise Attention Network (AWAN), which updates token representations into feature-specific representations by attending to demographic features, allowing models to learn annotation-specific patterns. Using the EXIST sexism detection dataset, we show that the AWAN-Full approach, which leverages all possible demographic feature combinations, improves sexism detection performance when considering annotator labels. Additionally, AWAN outperforms a widely used multi-task model in predicting annotator-specific labels, highlighting its effectiveness in capturing annotation diversity for perspective-aware classification.

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