
Asma Ben Abacha
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- affiliation: Lister Hill National Center, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
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2020 – today
- 2020
- [j11]Dina Demner-Fushman, Yassine Mrabet, Asma Ben Abacha:
Consumer health information and question answering: helping consumers find answers to their health-related information needs. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 27(2): 194-201 (2020) - [c33]Asma Ben Abacha, Vivek V. Datla, Sadid A. Hasan, Dina Demner-Fushman, Henning Müller:
Overview of the VQA-Med Task at ImageCLEF 2020: Visual Question Answering and Generation in the Medical Domain. CLEF (Working Notes) 2020 - [c32]Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Renaud Péteri, Asma Ben Abacha, Vivek V. Datla, Sadid A. Hasan, Dina Demner-Fushman, Serge Kozlovski, Vitali Liauchuk, Yashin Dicente Cid, Vassili Kovalev, Obioma Pelka, Christoph M. Friedrich
, Alba García Seco de Herrera, Van-Tu Ninh, Tu-Khiem Le, Liting Zhou, Luca Piras, Michael Riegler, Pål Halvorsen, Minh-Triet Tran, Mathias Lux, Cathal Gurrin, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark, Antonio Campello, Dimitri Fichou, Raul Berari, Paul Brie, Mihai Dogariu, Liviu-Daniel Stefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin:
Overview of the ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Lifelogging, Nature, and Internet Applications. CLEF 2020: 311-341 - [c31]Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Renaud Péteri, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Liting Zhou, Luca Piras, Michael Riegler, Pål Halvorsen, Minh-Triet Tran, Mathias Lux, Cathal Gurrin
, Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark, Antonio Campello, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Asma Ben Abacha, Vivek V. Datla, Sadid A. Hasan, Joey Liu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Obioma Pelka, Christoph M. Friedrich
, Yashin Dicente Cid, Serge Kozlovski, Vitali Liauchuk, Vassili Kovalev, Raul Berari, Paul Brie, Dimitri Fichou, Mihai Dogariu, Liviu-Daniel Stefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin:
ImageCLEF 2020: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Internet Applications. ECIR (2) 2020: 533-541 - [i2]Max E. Savery, Asma Ben Abacha, Soumya Gayen, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Question-Driven Summarization of Answers to Consumer Health Questions. CoRR abs/2005.09067 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [j10]Asma Ben Abacha
, Dina Demner-Fushman:
A question-entailment approach to question answering. BMC Bioinform. 20(1): 511:1-511:23 (2019) - [c30]Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman:
On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions. ACL (1) 2019: 2228-2234 - [c29]Asma Ben Abacha, Chaitanya Shivade, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering. BioNLP@ACL 2019: 370-379 - [c28]Asma Ben Abacha, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek V. Datla, Joey Liu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Henning Müller:
VQA-Med: Overview of the Medical Visual Question Answering Task at ImageCLEF 2019. CLEF (Working Notes) 2019 - [c27]Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Renaud Péteri, Yashin Dicente Cid, Vitali Liauchuk, Vassili Kovalev, Dzmitri Klimuk, Aleh Tarasau, Asma Ben Abacha, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek V. Datla, Joey Liu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Luca Piras, Michael Riegler, Minh-Triet Tran, Mathias Lux, Cathal Gurrin
, Obioma Pelka, Christoph M. Friedrich
, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Narciso García
, Ergina Kavallieratou, Carlos Roberto del-Blanco
, Carlos Cuevas, Nikos Vasilopoulos, Konstantinos Karampidis, Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark, Antonio Campello:
ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia Retrieval in Medicine, Lifelogging, Security and Nature. CLEF 2019: 358-386 - [c26]Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Renaud Péteri, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Luca Piras, Michael Riegler, Minh-Triet Tran, Mathias Lux, Cathal Gurrin
, Yashin Dicente Cid, Vitali Liauchuk
, Vassili Kovalev, Asma Ben Abacha, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek V. Datla, Joey Liu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Obioma Pelka, Christoph M. Friedrich
, Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Narciso García
, Ergina Kavallieratou, Carlos Roberto del-Blanco
, Carlos Cuevas, Nikos Vasilopoulos, Konstantinos Karampidis:
ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Security Applications. ECIR (2) 2019: 301-308 - [c25]Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, Mark Sharp, Travis R. Goodwin, Sonya E. Shooshan, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Bridging the Gap Between Consumers' Medication Questions and Trusted Answers. MedInfo 2019: 25-29 - [i1]Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman:
A Question-Entailment Approach to Question Answering. CoRR abs/1901.08079 (2019) - 2018
- [j9]Halil Kilicoglu
, Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, Sonya E. Shooshan, Laritza Rodriguez
, Kate Masterton, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Semantic annotation of consumer health questions. BMC Bioinform. 19(1): 34:1-34:28 (2018) - [c24]Asma Ben Abacha, Soumya Gayen, Jason J. Lau, Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, Dina Demner-Fushman:
NLM at ImageCLEF 2018 Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain. CLEF (Working Notes) 2018 - 2017
- [c23]Asma Ben Abacha, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Ke Wang, L. Rodney Long, Sameer K. Antani
, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Named entity recognition in functional neuroimaging literature. BIBM 2017: 2218-2220 - [c22]Asma Ben Abacha, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Soumya Gayen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sameer K. Antani:
NLM at ImageCLEF 2017 Caption Task. CLEF (Working Notes) 2017 - [c21]Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman:
NLM_NIH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: from Question Entailment to Question Similarity for Community Question Answering. SemEval@ACL 2017: 349-352 - [c20]Asma Ben Abacha, Eugene Agichtein, Yuval Pinter, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Overview of the Medical Question Answering Task at TREC 2017 LiveQA. TREC 2017 - 2016
- [j8]Asma Ben Abacha, Júlio Cesar dos Reis, Yassine Mrabet, Cédric Pruski, Marcos Da Silveira
:
Towards natural language question generation for the validation of ontologies and mappings. J. Biomed. Semant. 7: 48 (2016) - [j7]Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Meta-Learning with Selective Data Augmentation for Medical Entity Recognition. Int. J. Comput. Linguistics Appl. 7(2): 167-182 (2016) - [c19]Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Recognizing Question Entailment for Medical Question Answering. AMIA 2016 - [c18]Suchet K. Chachra, Asma Ben Abacha, Sonya E. Shooshan, Laritza Rodriguez, Dina Demner-Fushman:
A Hybrid Approach to Generation of Missing Abstracts in Biomedical Literature. COLING 2016: 1093-1100 - [c17]Halil Kilicoglu, Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, Kirk Roberts, Laritza Rodriguez, Sonya E. Shooshan, Dina Demner-Fushman:
Annotating Named Entities in Consumer Health Questions. LREC 2016 - [c16]Asma Ben Abacha:
NLM NIH at TREC 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track. TREC 2016 - 2015
- [j6]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
MEANS: A medical question-answering system combining NLP techniques and semantic Web technologies. Inf. Process. Manag. 51(5): 570-594 (2015) - [j5]Asma Ben Abacha, Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet, Alberto Lavelli, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Text mining for pharmacovigilance: Using machine learning for drug name recognition and drug-drug interaction extraction and classification. J. Biomed. Informatics 58: 122-132 (2015) - [c15]Asma Ben Abacha, Duy Dinh, Yassine Mrabet:
Semantic Analysis and Automatic Corpus Construction for Entailment Recognition in Medical Texts. AIME 2015: 238-242 - [c14]Asma Ben Abacha, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet, Júlio Cesar dos Reis:
LIST-LUX: Disorder Identification from Clinical Texts. SemEval@NAACL-HLT 2015: 427-432 - [c13]Asma Ben Abacha, Saoussen Khelifi:
LIST at TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track: Question Analysis and Unsupervised Result Fusion. TREC 2015 - 2014
- [j4]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
MEANS : une approche sémantique pour la recherche de réponses aux questions médicales. Trait. Autom. des Langues 55(1): 71-104 (2014) - [c12]Duy Dinh, Asma Ben Abacha:
CRP Henri Tudor at TREC 2014: Combining Search Results for Clinical Decision Support. TREC 2014 - 2013
- [c11]Asma Ben Abacha, Marcos Da Silveira
, Cédric Pruski:
Medical Ontology Validation through Question Answering. AIME 2013: 196-205 - [c10]Asma Ben Abacha, Marcos Da Silveira, Cédric Pruski:
Une approche pour la validation du contenu d'une ontologie par un système à base de questions/réponses. IC 2013: 81-96 - [c9]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Aurélien Max:
Automatic Information Extraction in the Medical Domain by Cross-Lingual Projection. ICHI 2013: 82-88 - 2012
- [b1]Asma Ben Abacha:
Recherche de réponses précises à des questions médicales : le système de questions-réponses MEANS. (Finding precise answers to medical questions : the question-answering system MEANS). University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 2012 - [j3]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
An empirical comparative study of medical entity recognition. Trait. Autom. des Langues 53(1): 39-68 (2012) - [c8]Brigitte Grau, Van-Minh Pho, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury:
Adaptation of LIMSI's QALC for QA4MRE. CLEF (Online Working Notes/Labs/Workshop) 2012 - [c7]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Analyse et transformation des questions médicales en requêtes SPARQL. CORIA 2012: 111-122 - [c6]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Medical question answering: translating medical questions into sparql queries. IHI 2012: 41-50 - [c5]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Aurélien Max:
Extraction d'information automatique en domaine médical par projection inter-langue : vers un passage à l'échelle (Automatic Information Extraction in the Medical Domain by Cross-Lingual Projection) [in French]. JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012: 15-28 - 2011
- [j2]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Automatic extraction of semantic relations between medical entities: a rule based approach. J. Biomed. Semant. 2(S-5): S4 (2011) - [j1]Anne-Lyse Minard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Asma Ben Abacha, Delphine Bernhard, Bruno Cartoni, Louise Deléger
, Brigitte Grau, Sophie Rosset, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Cyril Grouin:
Hybrid methods for improving information access in clinical documents: concept, assertion, and relation identification. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 18(5): 588-593 (2011) - [c4]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Medical Entity Recognition: A Comparaison of Semantic and Statistical Methods. BioNLP@ACL 2011: 56-64 - [c3]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
A Hybrid Approach for the Extraction of Semantic Relations from MEDLINE Abstracts. CICLing (2) 2011: 139-150 - 2010
- [c2]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Annotation et Interrogation Sémantiques de Textes Médicaux. WSM@IC 2010: 51-60 - [c1]Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum:
Automatic Extraction of semantic relations between medical entities: Application to the treatment relation. Semantic Mining in Biomedicine 2010
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