Papers by Alan Thomas
Medical Coding with Biomedical Transformer Ensembles and Zero/Few-shot Learning (2022.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Medical coding (MC) is an essential pre-requisite for reliable data retrieval and reporting. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to classify medical terms into standardized alphanumerical terms and codes . they use a combination of traditional BERT-based classification and a zero/few-shot learning approach . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baselines in the few-shot regime. |
BLN600: A Parallel Corpus of Machine/Human Transcribed Nineteenth Century Newspaper Texts (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Historical documents present unique challenges to automated digital transcription technologies, such as optical character recognition (OCR). |
| Approach: | They propose to use a publicly available nineteenth-century newspaper corpus to train and develop OCR and post-OCR correction methodologies for historical newspaper machine transcription. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus will be useful for training and development of OCR and post-OCR correction methodologies for historical newspaper machine transcription. |