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The First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health)


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PROGRAM

Monday May 20, 2024

 09:00–09:05 Opening remarks
 09:05–10:30 Session 1: Communicating with patients
09:05–09:35Invited talk – Barbara Di Eugenio: Engaging the Patient in Healthcare: Summarization and Interaction
09:35–09:55Improving Sign Language Production in the Healthcare Domain Using UMLS and Multi-task Learning
Jonathan David Mutal, Raphael Rubino, Pierrette Bouillon, Bastien David, Johanna Gerlach and Irene Strasly
09:55–10:15It’s Difficult to Be Neutral – Human and LLM-based Sentiment Annotation of Patient Comments
Petter Mæhlum, David Samuel, Rebecka Maria Norman, Elma Jelin, Øyvind Andresen Bjertnæs, Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal
10:15–10:30Poster boasters
10:30–11:00Coffee break
 11:00–13:00 Session 2: Patients’ language and care
11:00–11:30Invited talk – Natalia Grabar: Linguistic Foundations of the Simplification and its Current State
11:30–11:50Simulating Diverse Patient Populations Using Patient Vignettes and Large Language Models
Daniel Reichenpfader and Kerstin Denecke
11:50–12:10Annotating Emotions in Acquired Brain Injury Patients’ Narratives
Salomé Klein, Amalia Todirascu, Hélène Vassiliadou, Marie Kuppelin, Joffrey Becart, Thalassio Briand, Clara Coridon, Francine Gerhard-Krait, Joé Laroche, Jean Ulrich and Agata Krasny-Pacini
12:10–12:30Structuring Clinical Notes of Italian ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients
Vittorio Torri, Sara Mazzucato, Stefano Dalmiani, Umberto Paradossi, Claudio Passino, Sara Moccia, Silvestro Micera and Francesca Ieva
12:30–13:00Poster boasters
13:00–14:30Lunch
14:30–14:50Invited talk – Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez: Patients are speaking - are we listening? Incorporating patient perspectives posted online into clinical trials
 14:50–16:30 Poster session (parallel)
 Towards AI-supported Health Communication in Plain Language: Evaluating Intralingual Machine Translation of Medical Texts
Silvana Deilen, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Sergio Hernández Garrido, Christiane Maaß, Julian Hörner, Vanessa Theel and Sophie Ziemer
 Large Language Models as Drug Information Providers for Patients
Luca Giordano and Maria Pia di Buono
 Towards Generation of Personalised Health Intervention Messages
Clara Wan Ching Ho and Volha Petukhova
 Analysing Emotions in Cancer Narratives: A Corpus-Driven Approach
Daisy Monika Lal, Paul Rayson, Sheila A. Payne and Yufeng Liu
 Study of Medical Text Reading and Comprehension through Eye-Tracking Fixations
Oksana Ivchenko and Natalia Grabar
 A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food
Anuja Tayal, Barbara Di Eugenio, Devika Salunke, Andrew D. Boyd, Carolyn A. Dickens, Eulalia P. Abril, Olga Garcia-Bedoya and Paula G. Allen-Meares
 On Simplification of Discharge Summaries in Serbian: Facing the Challenges
Anđelka Zečević, Milica Ćulafić and Stefan Stojković
 Medical-FLAVORS: A Figurative Language and Vocabulary Open Repository for Spanish in the Medical Domain
Lucia Pitarch, Emma Angles-Herrero, Yufeng Liu, Daisy Monika Lal, Jorge Gracia, Paul Rayson and Judith Rietjens
 Generating Synthetic Documents with Clinical Keywords: A Privacy-Sensitive Methodology
Simon Meoni, Éric De la Clergerie and Théo Ryffel
 Building Certified Medical Chatbots: Overcoming Unstructured Data Limitations with Modular RAG
Leonardo Sanna, Patrizio Bellan, Simone Magnolini, Marina Segala, Saba Ghanbari Haez, Monica Consolandi and Mauro Dragoni
 Towards Using Automatically Enhanced Knowledge Graphs to Aid Temporal Relation Extraction
Timotej Knez and Slavko Žitnik
 Experiments in Automated Generation of Discharge Summaries in Italian
Lorenzo Ruinelli, Amos Colombo, Mathilde Rochat, Sotirios Georgios Popeskou, Andrea Franchini, Sandra Mitrović, Oscar William Lithgow, Joseph Cornelius and Fabio Rinaldi
 Evaluating LLMs for Temporal Entity Extraction from Pediatric Clinical Text in Rare Diseases Context
Judith Jeyafreeda Andrew, Marc Vincent, Anita Burgun and Nicolas Garcelon
 Generating Distributable Surrogate Corpus for Medical Multi-label Classification
Seiji Shimizu, Shuntaro Yada, Shoko Wakamiya and Eiji Aramaki
 CliniRes: Publicly Available Mapping of Clinical Lexical Resources
Elena Zotova, Montse Cuadros and German Rigau
 MedDialog-FR: A French Version of the MedDialog Corpus for Multi-label Classification and Response Generation Related to Women’s Intimate Health
Xingyu Liu, Vincent Segonne, Aidan Mannion, Didier Schwab, Lorraine Goeuriot and François Portet
 Exploring the Suitability of Transformer Models to Analyse Mental Health Peer Support Forum Data for a Realist Evaluation
Matthew Coole, Paul Rayson, Zoe Glossop, Fiona Lobban, Paul Marshall and John Vidler
 14:50–16:30 Virtual poster session (parallel)
 Revisiting the MIMIC-IV Benchmark: Experiments Using Language Models for Electronic Health Records
Jesus Lovon-Melgarejo, Thouria Ben-Haddi, Jules Di Scala, Jose G. Moreno and Lynda Tamine
 Unraveling Clinical Insights: A Lightweight and Interpretable Approach for Multimodal and Multilingual Knowledge Integration
Kanimozhi Uma and Marie-Francine Moens
 Automated Question-Answer Generation for Evaluating RAG-based Chatbots
Juan José González Torres, Mihai Bogdan Bîndilă, Sebastiaan Hofstee, Daniel Szondy, Quang-Hung Nguyen, Shenghui Wang and Gwenn Englebienne
 Speech Accommodation in Health-Care Interactions: Evidence Using a Mixed-Reality Platform
Rose Baker, Susan C. Bobb, Dai’Sha Dowson, Elisha Eanes, Makyah McNeill, Hannah Ragsdale, Audrey Eaves, Joseph G. Lee and Kathrin Rothermich
 Enhancing Consumer Health Question Reformulation: Chain-of-Thought Prompting Integrating Focus, Type, and User Knowledge Level
Jooyeon Lee, Luan Huy Pham and Özlem Uzuner
 Exploring the Challenges of Behaviour Change Language Classification: A Study on Semi-Supervised Learning and the Impact of Pseudo-Labelled Data
Selina Meyer, Marcos Fernandez-Pichel, David Elsweiler and David E. Losada
 Development of a Benchmark Corpus for Medical Device Adverse Event Detection
Susmitha Wunnava, David A. Harris, Florence T. Bourgeois and Timothy A. Miller
 Using BART to Automatically Generate Discharge Summaries from Swedish Clinical Text
Nils Berg and Hercules Dalianis
16:00–16:30Coffee break
 16:30–18:00 Session 3: Social media and literature
16:30–17:00Invited talk – Abeed Sarker: Learning and Educating via NLP of Social Media: the Use Case for Substance Use and Overdose in the United States
17:00–17:20Biomedical Entity Linking for Dutch: Fine-tuning a Self-alignment BERT Model on an Automatically Generated Wikipedia Corpus
Fons Hartendorp, Tom Seinen, Erik van Mulligen and Suzan Verberne
17:20–17:40Unveiling Voices: Identification of Concerns in a Social Media Breast Cancer Cohort via Natural Language Processing
Swati Rajwal, Avinash Kumar Pandey, Zhishuo Han and Abeed Sarker
17:40–18:00Intent Detection and Entity Extraction from Biomedical Literature
Ankan Mullick, Mukur Gupta and Pawan Goyal
 18:00–18:05 Closing remarks