• Demner-Fushman D, Mrabet Y, Ben Abacha A. Consumer health information and question answering: helping consumers find answers to their health-related information needs. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2020: 27 (2), 194-201.

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• Demner-Fushman D, Cohen KB, Ananiadou S, Tsujii J. Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, 2020.

  Abstract | URL:  https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.bionlp-1.0.pdf

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• Sarrouti M, Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. Visual Question Generation from Radiology Images. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research.

  Abstract | URL:  https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.alvr-1.3.pdf

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• Savery M, Ben Abacha A, Gayen S, Demner-Fushman D. Question-Driven Summarization of Answers to Consumer Health Questions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09067.

  Abstract | URL:  https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09067

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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. A Question-Entailment Approach to Question Answering. arXiv:1901.08079.

  Abstract | URL:  https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08079

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• Ben Abacha A, Hasan SA, Datls W, Liu J, Demner-Fushman D, Muller H. VQA-Med: Overview of the medical visual question answering task at imageclef 2019. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 9-12, 2019.

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• Lu C, Payne A, Demner-Fushman D. Classification Types: A New Feature in the SPECIALIST Lexicon. AMIA Fall Symposium, 2019.

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• Rae A, Savery M, Mork JG, Demner-Fushman D. A High Recall Classifier for Selecting Articles for MEDLINE Indexing. AMIA Fall Symposium, 2019.

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• Ben Abacha A, Mrabet Y, Sharp M, Goodwin T, Shooshan S, Demner-Fushman D. Bridging the Gap Between Consumers' Medication Questions and Trusted Answers. Studies in health technology and informatics, 264, pp.25-29, 2019.

  Abstract | PMID:  31437878 | URL:  https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190176

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• Ben Abacha A, Mrabet Y, Sharp M, Goodwin T, Shooshan S, Demner-Fushman D. Bridging the Gap Between Consumers’ Medication Questions and Trusted Answers. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21;264:25-29. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190176.

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• Ben Abacha A, Shivade C, Demner-Fushman D. Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering. Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task, Florence, Italy, August 1, 2019.

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• Ben Abacha A, Shivade C, Demner-Fushman D. Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering. Proceedings of the BioNLP 2019 workshop.

  Abstract | URL:  https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-5039.pdf

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• Demner-Fushman D, Cohen KB, Ananiadou S, Tsujii J. Sesame Street at BioNLP 2019. Proceedings of the BioNLP 2019 workshop.

  Abstract | URL:  https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-5000.pdf

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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions. ACL 2019, Florence, Italy.

  Abstract | URL:  https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1215.pdf

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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Florence, Italy 2019.

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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. On the Role of Question Summarization and Information Source Restriction in Consumer Health Question Answering. AMIA Informatics Summit, March 2019.

  Abstract | pub9998.pdf | PMID:  31258963 | PMCID:  PMC6568117

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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. On the Role of Question Summarization and Information Source Restriction in Consumer Health Question Answering. Proceedings of the AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 25-28, 2019.

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• Demner-Fushman D. Clinical, Consumer Health, and Visual Question Answering. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. J. A. Lossio-Ventura et al. (Eds.): SIMBig 2018, CCIS 898, pp. 1–6, 2019.

  Abstract | URL:  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-11680-4_1

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• Rodriguez L, Demner-Fushman D. Finding Understudied Disorders Potentially Associated with Maternal Morbidity and Mortality. AJP Rep. 2019 Jan;9(1):e36-e43. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-1683363. Epub 2019 Mar 4.

  Abstract | pub9896.pdf | PMID:  30838163

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• Lu C, Aronson, AR, Shooshan SE, Demner-Fushman D. Spell checker for consumer language (CSpell). J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 Jan 21. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocy171. [Epub ahead of print]

  Abstract | PMID:  30668712

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• Lau JJ, Gayen S, Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. A dataset of clinically generated visual questions and answers about radiology images. Sci Data. 2018 Nov 20;5:180251. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.251.

  Abstract | PMID:  30457565 | PMCID:  PMC6244189

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• Edinger T, Demner-Fushman D, Cohen AM, Bedrick S, Hersh W. Evaluation of Clinical Text Segmentation to Facilitate Cohort Retrieval. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Apr 16;2017:660-669. eCollection 2017.

  Abstract | PMID:  29854131 | PMCID:  PMC5977655

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• Kilicoglu H, Ben Abacha A, Mrabet Y, Shooshan SE, Rodriguez L, Masterton K, Demner-Fushman D. Semantic annotation of consumer health questions. BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Feb 6;19(1):34. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2045-1.

  Abstract | PMID:  29409442 | PMCID:  PMC5802048

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• Ben Abacha A, De Herrera A, Gayen S, Demner-Fushman D, Antani SK. NLM at ImageCLEF 2017 Caption Task. International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages 2017 Sep 11 (pp. 358-360). Springer, Cham.

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• Guo P, Stanley RJ, Cole JG, Hagerty JR, Stoecker WV. Color Feature-based Pillbox Image Color Recognition. Published 2017 in VISIGRAPP DOI:10.5220/0006136001880194.

  Abstract | URL:  http://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2017/61360/61360.pdf

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• Ben Abacha A, Agichtein E, Pinter Y, Demner-Fushman D. Overview of the Medical QA Task @ TREC 2017 LiveQA Track. TREC, Gaithersburg, MD, 2017.

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• Deardorff A, Masterton K, Roberts K, Kilicoglu H, Demner-Fushman D. A protocol-driven approach to automatically finding authoritative answers to consumer health questions in online resources. JASIST, 68(7): 1724-1736. doi: 10.1002/asi.23806.

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• Cohen T, Roberts K, Gururaj AE, Chen X, Pournejati S, Alter G, Hersh WR, Demner-Fushman D, Ohno-Machado L, Lu H. A publicly available benchmark for biomedical dataset retrieval: the reference standard for the 2016 bioCADDIE dataset retrieval challenge. Database (Oxford). 2017 Jan 1;2017. doi: 10.1093/database/bax061.

  Abstract | PMID:  29220453 | PMCID:  PMC5737202

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• Ben Abacha A. NLM_NIH at TREC 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track. Proceedings of TREC 2016, the 25th Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2016.

  Abstract | pub9489.pdf

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• Demner-Fushman D, Elhadad N. Aspiring to Unintended Consequences of Natural Language Processing: A Review of Recent Developments in Clinical and Consumer-Generated Text Processing. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2016.

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• De Herrera A, Schaer R, Bromuri S, Müller H. Overview of the ImageCLEF 2016 Medical Task. CLEF working notes 2016, CEUR, 2016.

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• Villegas M, Müller R, De Herrera A, Schaer R, Bromuri S, Gilbert A, Piras L, Wang J, Yan F, Ramisa A, Dellandrea E, Gaizauskas R, Mikolajczyk K, Puigcerver J, Toselli A, Sánchez J, Vidal E. General Overview of ImageCLEF at the CLEF 2016 Labs. CLEF Proceedings, Springer, 2016

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• Mrabet Y, Kilicoglu H, Demner-Fushman D. Unsupervised Ranking of Knowledge Bases for Named Entity Recognition. ECAI 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1248-1255.

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• Demner-Fushman D, Antani SK, Chachra S, Kushnir M, Gayen S. Open-i Imaging informatics, natural language processing and multi-modal information retrieval - research and development Technical Report to the LHNCBC Board of Scientific Counselors September 2016

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• Roberts K, Demner-Fushman D. Interactive use of online health resources: a comparison of consumer and professional questions. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Jul;23(4):802-11. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw024. Epub 2016 May 4.

  Abstract | pub9363.pdf | PMID:  27147494 | PMCID:  PMC4926747

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• Kilicoglu H, Ben Abacha A, Mrabet Y, Roberts K, Rodriguez L, Shooshan SE, Demner-Fushman D. Annotating named entities in consumer health questions. LREC,23-28 May 2016, Portorož.

  Abstract | pub9349.pdf

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• Demner-Fushman D, Kilicoglu H. Dataset: CHQA Named Entity Dataset

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• Kilicoglu H, Demner-Fushman D. Bio-SCoRes: A Smorgasbord Architecture for Coreference Resolution in Biomedical Text. PLoS One. 2016 Mar 2;11(3):e0148538. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148538. eCollection 2016.

  Abstract | PMID:  26934708 | PMCID:  PMC4774913

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• Demner-Fushman D, Kohli MD, Rosenman MB, Shooshan SE, Rodriguez L, Antani S, Thoma GR, McDonald CJ. Preparing a collection of radiology examinations for distribution and retrieval. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Mar;23(2):304-10. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv080. Epub 2015 Jul 1.

  Abstract | PMID:  26133894 | PMCID:  PMC5009925

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• Demner-Fushman D, Roberts K. Dataset: Question Decomposition Data

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• Demner-Fushman D, Roberts K. Dataset: Question Type Data

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• Kilicoglu H, Fiszman M, Roberts K, Demner-Fushman D. An Ensemble Method for Spelling Correction in Consumer Health Questions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015 Nov 5;2015:727-36. eCollection 2015.

  Abstract | PMID:  26958208 | PMCID:  PMC4765565

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• Demner-Fushman D, Kilicoglu H, Roberts K, Masterton K, Deardorff A. Consumer Health Question Answering to Automatically Support NLM Customer Services September2015 Technical Report to the LHNCBC Board of Scientific Counselors

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• Roberts K, Simpson M, Demner-Fushman D, Voorhees E, Hersh W. State-of-the-art in biomedical literature retrieval for clinical cases: A survey of the TREC 2014 CDS Track. Inf Retrieval J. 2015.

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• Ayvas S, Horn J, Hassanzadeh O, Zhu Q, Stan J, Tatonetti NP, Vilar S, Brochhausen M8, Samwald M, Rastegar-Mojarad M, Dumontier M, Boyce RD. Toward a complete dataset of drug-drug interaction information from publicly available sources. J Biomed Inform. 2015 Jun;55:206-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.04.006. Epub 2015 Apr 24.

  Abstract | PMID:  25917055 | PMCID:  PMC4464899

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• Demner-Fushman D, Shooshan SE, Rodriguez L, Antani SK, Thoma GR. Annotation of Chest Radiology Reports for Indexing and Retrieval. Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain 2015 (MRMD 2015), Vienna, Austria, March 29, 2015

  Abstract | pub9218.pdf

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• Vajda S. Label the many with a few: Semi-automatic medical image modality discovery in a large image collection. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Orlando, FL, Dec 9-12, 2014

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• Roberts K, Cahan A, Demner-Fushman D. Error Propagation in EHRs via Copy/Paste: An Analysis of Relative Dates [Poster]. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Fall Symposium (AMIA), Washington, D.C., Nov 15-19, 2014.

  Abstract | pub8973.pdf | URL:  http://knowledge.amia.org/56638-amia-1.1540970/t-005-1.1543914/f-005-1.1543915/a...

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• Rahman MM, You D, Simpson MS, Antani SK, Demner-Fushman D. Interactive Cross and Multimodal Biomedical Image Retrieval Based on Automatic Region-Of-Interest (ROI) Identification and Classification. International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (MMIR) 2014 Sep;3(3):131-146.

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• Kilicoglu H, Demner-Fushman D. Coreference Resolution for Structured Drug Product Labels Proceedings of BioNLP 2014. pp. 44-53.

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