Conference and Journal Papers

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PrePrint/Under Review

Contextualizing Information Needs in Online Health Communities: The Case of Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder through the Lens of Epistemic Injustice
Madhusudan Basak*, Dipto Das*, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sarah Masud Preum
Under review
Socially Constructed Treatment Plans: Analyzing Online Peer Interactions to Understand How Patients Navigate Complex Medical Conditions
Madhusudan Basak, Omar Sharif, Jessica Hulsey, Elizabeth C. Saunders, Daisy J. Goodman, Luke J. Archibald, Sarah Masud Preum
Under review
Large Language Models for Document-Level Event-Argument Data Augmentation for Challenging Role Types
Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Omar Sharif, Sarah M. Preum
Under review
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Scope of Large Language Models for Mining Emerging Opinions in Online Health Discourse
Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Yash Srivastava, Phillip Bohlman, Sarah M. Preum
Under review
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ActSafe: Predicting Violations of Medical Temporal Constraints for Medication Adherence
Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Abdullah Mamun, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Diane Cook, John Stankovic, Sarah M. Preum
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Not Enough Labeled Data? Just Add Semantics: A Data-Efficient Method for Inferring Online Health Texts
Joseph Gatto, Sarah M. Preum
PrePrint

2024

Explicit, Implicit, and Scattered: Revisiting Event Extraction to Capture Complex Arguments
Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah M. Preum
Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2024)
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Characterizing Information Seeking Events in Health-Related Social Discourse
Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak, Tanzia Parvin, Ava Scharfstein, Alphonso Bradham, J. Borodovsky, S. Lord, Sarah Masud Preum
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2024)
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Deciphering Hate: Identifying Hateful Memes and Their Targets
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Sarah M. Preum
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2024)
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Align before Attend: Aligning Visual and Textual Features for Multimodal Hateful Content Detection
Eftekhar Hossain*, Omar Sharif*, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Sarah Masud Preum
EACL Student Research Workshop (EACL-SRW-2024)
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Theme-driven Keyphrase Extraction to Analyze Social Media Discourse
William Romano*, Omar Sharif*, Madhusudan Basak*, Joseph Gatto, Sarah Preum
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2024)
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2023

Text Encoders Lack Knowledge: Leveraging Generative LLMs for Domain-Specific Semantic Textual Similarity
Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Parker Seegmiller, Philip Bohlman, Sarah Masud Preum
GEM Workshop at (EMNLP-2023)
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Chain-of-Thought Embeddings for Stance Detection on Social Media
Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Sarah Masud Preum
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2023)
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Statistical Depth for Ranking and Characterizing Transformer-Based Text Embeddings
Parker Seegmiller, Sarah Masud Preum
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2023)
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The Scope of In-Context Learning for the Extraction of Medical Temporal Constraints
Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Diane Cook, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, John Stankovic, Sarah Preum
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI-23)
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Dendrite: A Structured, Accessible, and Queryable Pathology Search Database for Streamlined Experiment Planning
Yunrui Lu, Robert Hamilton, Jack Greenburg, Gokul Srinivasan, Parth Shah, Sarah Preum, Jason Pettus, Louis Vaickus, Joshua Levy
MedRxiv
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Scope of Pre-trained Language Models for Detecting Conflicting Health Information
Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah Masud Preum
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2023)
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CitySpec with shield: A secure intelligent assistant for requirement formalization
Zirong Chen, Isaac Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Sarah Preum, John A Stankovic, Meiyi Ma
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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HealthE: Recognizing Health Advice & Entities in Online Health Communities
Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Garrett M Johnston, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah Masud Preum
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2023)
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Assessing the Impact of Pretraining Domain Relevance on Large Language Models Across Various Pathology Reporting Tasks
Yunrui Lu, Gokul Srinivasan, Sarah Preum, Jason Pettus, Matthew Davis, Jack Greenburg, Louis Vaickus, Joshua Levy
MedRxiv
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Potential to Enhance Large Scale Molecular Assessments of Skin Photoaging through Virtual Inference of Spatial Transcriptomics from Routine Staining
Gokul Srinivasan, Matthew Davis, Matthew LeBoeuf, Michael Fatemi, Zarif Azher, Yunrui Lu, Alos Diallo, Marietta Montivero, Fred Kolling IV, Laurent Perrard, Lucas Salas, Brock Christensen, Scott Palisoul, Gregory Tsongalis, Louis Vaickus, Sarah Preum, Joshua Levy
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
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EMS-BERT: A Pre-Trained Language Representation Model for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Domain
M Arif Rahman, Sarah Masud Preum, Ronald D Williams, Homa Alemzadeh, John Stankovic
IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE-2023)
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A deep learning algorithm to detect cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma on frozen sections in Mohs micrographic surgery: a retrospective assessment
Matthew Davis, Gokul Srinivasan, Rachael Chacko, Sophie Chen, Anish Suvarna, Louis Vaickus, Veronica Torres, Sassan Hodge, Eunice Chen, Sarah Preum, Kimberley Samkoe, Brock Christensen, Matthew LeBoeuf, Joshua Levy
MedRxiv
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Development of an interactive web dashboard to facilitate the reexamination of pathology reports for instances of underbilling of CPT codes
Jack Greenburg, Yunrui Lu, Shuyang Lu, Uhuru Kamau, Robert Hamilton, Jason Pettus, Sarah Preum, Louis Vaickus, Joshua Levy
Journal of Pathology Informatics
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2022

Identifying the Perceived Severity of Patient-Generated Telemedical Queries Regarding COVID: Developing and Evaluating a Transfer Learning–Based Solution
Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Garrett Johnston, Sarah Masud Preum
JMIR Medical Informatics
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An Intelligent Assistant for Converting City Requirements to Formal Specification
Zirong Chen, Isaac Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Sarah Preurn, John A Stankovic, Meiyi Ma
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2022)
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Cityspec: An intelligent assistant system for requirement specification in smart cities
Zirong Chen, Isaac Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Sarah Preum, John A Stankovic, Meiyi Ma
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2022)
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UTILIZING WEARABLE SENSORS AND ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT IN-HOME CONTEXTUALIZED EATING EVENTS
Brooke M Bell, Donna Spruijt-metz, Ridwan Alam, Abu Mondol, Meiyi Ma, Ifat A Emi, Sarah Preum, John Stankovic, John Lach, Kayla de la Haye
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
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Validity and feasibility of the monitoring and modeling family eating dynamics system to automatically detect in-field family eating behavior: observational study
Brooke Marie Bell, Ridwan Alam, Abu Sayeed Mondol, Meiyi Ma, Ifat Afrin Emi, Sarah Masud Preum, Kayla de la Haye, John A Stankovic, John Lach, Donna Spruijt-Metz
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
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2021 & Earlier

Challenges and directions for ambient intelligence: A cyber physical systems perspective
John A Stankovic, Meiyi Ma, Sarah Masud Preum, Homa Alemzadeh
International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI 2021)
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A review of cognitive assistants for healthcare: Trends, prospects, and future directions
Sarah Masud Preum, Sirajum Munir, Meiyi Ma, Mohammad Samin Yasar, David J Stone, Ronald Williams, Homa Alemzadeh, John A Stankovic
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR 2021)
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Technical Feasibility, Financial Viability, and Clinician Acceptance: On the Many Challenges to AI in Clinical Practice.
Nur Yildirim, John Zimmerman, Sarah Preum
HUMAN@ AAAI Fall Symposium
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Emscontext: EMS protocol-driven concept extraction for cognitive assistance in emergency response
Sarah Masud Preum, Sile Shu, Homa Alemzadeh, John A Stankovic
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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GRACE: generating summary reports automatically for cognitive assistance in emergency response
M Arif Rahman, Sarah M Preum, Ronald Williams, Homa Alemzadeh, John A Stankovic
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Data sets, modeling, and decision making in smart cities: A survey
Meiyi Ma, Sarah M Preum, Mohsin Y Ahmed, William Tärneberg, Abdeltawab Hendawi, John A Stankovic
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS)
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Towards a cognitive assistant system for emergency response
Sarah Masud Preum, Sile Shu, Jonathan Ting, Vincent Lin, Ronald Williams, John Stankovic, Homa Alemzadeh
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS-2018)
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A corpus of drug usage guidelines annotated with type of advice
Sarah Masud Preum, Md Rizwan Parvez, Kai-Wei Chang, John Stankovic
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
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Conflict detection in online textual health advice: demo abstract
Sarah M Preum, Abu S Mondol, Meiyi Ma, Hongning Wang, John A Stankovic
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
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Preclude2: Personalized conflict detection in heterogeneous health applications
Sarah Masud Preum, Abu Sayeed Mondol, Meiyi Ma, Hongning Wang, John A Stankovic
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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