Kirk Roberts

Scholarly recommendation systems: a literature survey

2023 · Knowledge and Information Systems

A scholarly recommendation system is an important tool for identifying prior and related resources such as literature, datasets, grants, and collaborators. A well-designed scholarly recommender significantly saves the time of researchers and can provide information …

Leveraging existing corpora for de-identification of psychiatric notes using domain adaptation.

2017 · PubMed

De-identification of clinical notes is a special case of named entity recognition. Supervised machine-learning (ML) algorithms have achieved promising results for this task. However, ML-based de-identification systems often require annotating a large number of clinical …

A Paraphrase Generation System for EHR Question Answering

2019

This paper proposes a dataset and method for automatically generating paraphrases for clinical questions relating to patient-specific information in electronic health records (EHRs). Crowdsourcing is used to collect 10,578 unique questions across 946 semantically distinct …

On the Quality of the TREC-COVID IR Test Collections

2021

Shared text collections continue to be vital infrastructure for IR research. The COVID-19 pandemic offered an opportunity to create a test collection that captured the rapidly changing information space during a pandemic, and the TREC-COVID …