• 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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• Savery M, Rogers W, Pillai M, Mork JG, Demner-Fushman D. Chemical Entity Recognition for MEDLINE Indexing. AMIA 2020 Virtual Informatics Summit, 2020.

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• Sarrouti M, Quatik EL, Alaoui S. SemBioNLQA: A semantic biomedical question answering system for retrieving exact and ideal answers to natural language questions. Artif Intell Med. 2020 Jan;102:101767. doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2019.101767. Epub 2019 Nov 28.

  Abstract | PMID:  31980104

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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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• Goodwin T, Demner-Fushman D, Fung K, Do P. Overview of the TAC 2019 Track on Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction from Drug Label. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 20 19, Gathersburg, MD, USA, November 12-13, 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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• Savery M, Huston M, Mork JG, Printseva O, Rae A, Schmidt S, Demner-Fushman D. Evaluation of System for Selective Indexing Classification. 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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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. On the role of question summarization and information source restriction in consumer health question answering. In Proceedings of the AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2019.

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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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• Demner-Fushman D, Fung K, Do P, Boyce R, Goodwin T. Overview of the TAC 2018 Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction from Drug Labels Track. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2018, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 13-14, 2018.

  Abstract | pub9978.pdf

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• Lu C, Demner-Fushman D. Improving Spelling Correction with Consumer Health Terminology Improving Spelling Correction with Consumer Health Terminology AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, November 3-7, 2018, p. 2053.

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• Rodriguez L, Morrison SM, Greenberg K, Demner-Fushman D. Mining the literature for genes associated with placenta-mediated maternal diseases. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Apr 16;2017:1498-1506. eCollection 2017.

  Abstract | pub9572.pdf | PMID:  29854219 | PMCID:  PMC5977710

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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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• Zweigenbaum P, Demner-Fushman D. Advanced Literature-Mining Tools. In Edwards D, Stajich J, and Hansen D. (Editors). Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications. Springer 2009.

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• Demner-Fushman D. A dataset of 200 structured product labels annotated for adverse drug reactions. Sci Data. 2018 Jan 30;5:180001. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.1.

  Abstract | PMID:  29381145 | PMCID:  PMC5789866

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• Ben Abacha A, Long LR, Seco de Herrera AG, Antani SK, Wang K, Demner-Fushman D. Named Entity Recognition in Functional Neuroimaging Literature. BIBM 2017

  Abstract | URL:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8218002

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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.

  Abstract | pub9539.pdf

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• Roberts K, Gururaj A, Chen X, Pournejati S, Cohen T, Hersh WR, Demner-Fushman D. Information Retrieval for Biomedical Datasets. 2016 bioCADDIE Challenge. AMIA 2017.

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• Zhang, K, Demner-Fushman D. Automated classification of eligibility criteria in clinical trials to facilitate patient-trial matching for specific patient populations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Jul 1;24(4):781-787. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw176.

  Abstract | PMID:  28339690 | PMCID:  PMC6080677

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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.

  Abstract | pub9773.pdf

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• Mork JG, Aronson A, Demner-Fushman D. 12 years on - Is the NLM medical text indexer still useful and relevant? J Biomed Semantics. 2017 Feb 23;8(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s13326-017-0113-5.

  Abstract | PMID:  28231809 | PMCID:  PMC5324252

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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. Recognizing Question Entailment for Medical Question Answering. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2017 Feb 10;2016:310-318. eCollection 2016.

  Abstract | pub9500.pdf | PMID:  28269825 | PMCID:  PMC5333286

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• Mrabet Y, Kilicoglu H, Roberts K, Demner-Fushman D. Combining Open-domain and Biomedical Knowledge for Topic Recognition in Consumer Health Questions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2017 Feb 10;2016:914-923. eCollection 2016.

  Abstract | pub9458.pdf | PMID:  28269888 | PMCID:  PMC5333243

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• Roberts K, Rodriguez L, Shooshan SE, Demner-Fushman D. Resource Classification for Medical Questions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2017 Feb 10;2016:1040-1049. eCollection 2016.

  Abstract | PMID:  28269901 | PMCID:  PMC5333297

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• Workman E, Weir, C, Rindflesch TC. Differentiating Sense through Semantic Interaction Data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2017 Feb 10;2016:1238-1247. eCollection 2016.

  Abstract | PMID:  28269921 | PMCID:  PMC5333208

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• Demner-Fushman D, Rogers W, Aronson A. MetaMap Lite: an evaluation of a new Java implementation of MetaMap. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Jul 1;24(4):841-844. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw177.

  Abstract | PMID:  28130331

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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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• Ben Abacha A, Demner-Fushman D. NLM_NIH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: from Question Entailment to Question Similarity for Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval@ACL) 2017: 349-352.

  Abstract | pub9538.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.

  Abstract | pub9419.pdf

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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

  Abstract | pub9420.pdf

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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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• Wei W, Marmor R, Singh S, Wang S, Demner-Fushman D, Kuo TT, Hsu CN, Ohno-Machado L. Finding Related Publications: Extending the Set of Terms Used to Assess Article Similarity. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2016 Jul 20;2016:225-34. eCollection 2016.

  Abstract | PMID:  27570676 | PMCID:  PMC5001748

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