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DFKI-MLST at DialAM-2024 Shared Task: System Description

Evaluating the Robustness of Adverse Drug Event Classification Models Using Templates

An adverse drug effect (ADE) is any harmful event resulting from medical drug treatment. Despite their importance, ADEs are often under-reported in official channels. Some research has therefore turned to detecting discussions of ADEs in social …

Symmetric Dot-Product Attention for Efficient Training of BERT Language Models

Initially introduced as a machine translation model, the Transformer architecture has now become the foundation for modern deep learning architecture, with applications in a wide range of fields, from computer vision to natural language processing. …

Towards ML-supported Triage Prediction in Real-World Emergency Room Scenarios

XAI for Better Exploitation of Text in Medical Decision Support

DFKI-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 2: Towards Robust LLMs Using Data Perturbations and MinMax Training

The NLI4CT task at SemEval-2024 emphasizes the development of robust models for Natural Language Inference on Clinical Trial Reports (CTRs) using large language models (LLMs). This edition introduces interventions specifically targeting the …

LLMCheckup: Conversational Examination of Large Language Models via Interpretability Tools and Self-Explanations

Interpretability tools that offer explanations in the form of a dialogue have demonstrated their efficacy in enhancing users' understanding (Slack et al., 2023; Shen et al., 2023), as one-off explanations may fall short in providing sufficient …

Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Integration into Language Models: A Survey

Assessing Authenticity and Anonymity of Synthetic User-generated Content in the Medical Domain

Since medical text cannot be shared easily due to privacy concerns, synthetic data bears much potential for natural language processing applications. In the context of social media and user-generated messages about drug intake and adverse drug …

InterroLang: Exploring NLP Models and Datasets through Dialogue-based Explanations

While recently developed NLP explainability methods let us open the black box in various ways (Madsen et al., 2022), a missing ingredient in this endeavor is an interactive tool offering a conversational interface. Such a dialogue system can help …