Olivier Ferret

Can Synthetic Text Help Clinical Named Entity Recognition? A Study of Electronic Health Records in French

2023

In sensitive domains, the sharing of corpora is restricted due to confidentiality, copyrights or trade secrets. Automatic text generation can help alleviate these issues by producing synthetic texts that mimic the linguistic properties of real …

Clinical Text Generation: Are We There Yet?

2025 · Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), operationalized as large language models, is increasingly used in the biomedical field to assist with a range of text processing tasks including text classification, information extraction, and decision support. In this …

Neural Architecture for Temporal Relation Extraction: A Bi-LSTM Approach for Detecting Narrative Containers

2017

We present a neural architecture for containment relation identification between medical events and/or temporal expressions. We experiment on a corpus of deidentified clinical notes in English from the Mayo Clinic, namely the THYME corpus. Our …