Papers by Ayah Zirikly
Improving the Generalizability of Depression Detection by Leveraging Clinical Questionnaires (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to identify mental health conditions using social media are limited by the presence of symptoms described in a questionnaire used by clinicians. |
| Approach: | They propose to ground a model in PHQ9's symptoms to improve generalization . they also show that this approach can still perform competitively on in-domain data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can perform competitively on in-domain data while improving generalizability and generalisability. |
Characterization of Stigmatizing Language in Medical Records (2023.acl-short)
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Keith Harrigian, Ayah Zirikly, Brant Chee, Alya Ahmad, Anne Links, Somnath Saha, Mary Catherine Beach, Mark Dredze
| Challenge: | Widespread disparities in healthcare outcomes exist between demographic groups in the United States. |
| Approach: | They characterize disparities in medical documentation using domain-informed NLP techniques and highlight important differences between them. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods highlight important differences between the task and bias-related tasks studied within the NLP community. |
A Whole-Person Function Dictionary for the Mobility, Self-Care and Domestic Life Domains: a Seedset Expansion Approach (2022.lrec-1)
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Ayah Zirikly, Bart Desmet, Julia Porcino, Jonathan Camacho Maldonado, Pei-Shu Ho, Rafael Jimenez Silva, Maryanne Sacco
| Challenge: | Functional limitations affect a large proportion of the world's population, according to the World Health Organization. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a set of manually annotated clinical notes to build a terminology for whole-person function in the domains of mobility, self-care and domestic life. |
| Outcome: | The proposed terminologies were built and evaluated using a small set of manually annotated clinical notes. |