Papers by Larry An
Towards Extracting Medical Family History from Natural Language Interactions: A New Dataset and Baselines (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Using dialog agents, we can collect family history data from in-person consultations and crowdsource it to a genetic counselor. |
| Approach: | They propose to use natural language interactions annotated with medical family histories to collect information from a genetic counselor and crowdsourcing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system averages 0.87 on complex sentences on the targeted relations. |
Empathy Identification Systems are not Accurately Accounting for Context (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Empathy is a fundamental phenomenon that allows us to better communicate and relate with others. |
| Approach: | They propose a simple model that checks if an input utterance is similar to a small set of empathetic examples, but does not consider dialogue context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on benchmarks and empathetic rationale extraction benchmarks. |
Micromodels for Efficient, Explainable, and Reusable Systems: A Case Study on Mental Health (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing statistical models are not explainable, struggle in low-resource scenarios and cannot be reused for multiple tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a micromodel architecture that embeds domain knowledge and provides explanations throughout the model’s decision process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is validated on depression classification, PTSD classification, and suicidal risk assessment tasks. |