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View article: The algorithm journey map: a tangible approach to implementing AI solutions in healthcare
The algorithm journey map: a tangible approach to implementing AI solutions in healthcare Open
When integrating AI tools in healthcare settings, complex interactions between technologies and primary users are not always fully understood or visible. This deficient and ambiguous understanding hampers attempts by healthcare organizatio…
View article: Organizational Governance of Emerging Technologies: AI Adoption in Healthcare
Organizational Governance of Emerging Technologies: AI Adoption in Healthcare Open
Private and public sector structures and norms refine how emerging technology is used in practice. In healthcare, despite a proliferation of AI adoption, the organizational governance surrounding its use and integration is often poorly und…
View article: A Pilot Study in Surveying Clinical Judgments to Evaluate Radiology Report Generation
A Pilot Study in Surveying Clinical Judgments to Evaluate Radiology Report Generation Open
The recent release of many Chest X-Ray datasets has prompted a lot of interest in radiology report generation. To date, this has been framed as an image captioning task, where the machine takes an RGB image as input and generates a 2-3 sen…
View article: Hard for humans, hard for machines: predicting readmission after psychiatric hospitalization using narrative notes
Hard for humans, hard for machines: predicting readmission after psychiatric hospitalization using narrative notes Open
Machine learning has been suggested as a means of identifying individuals at greatest risk for hospital readmission, including psychiatric readmission. We sought to compare the performance of predictive models that use interpretable repres…
View article: Publicly Available Clinical
Publicly Available Clinical Open
Contextual word embedding models such as ELMo and BERT have dramatically improved performance for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks in recent months. However, these models have been minimally explored on specialty corpora, such …
View article: Quantifying racial disparities in end-of-life care
Quantifying racial disparities in end-of-life care Open
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.
View article: SimiHawk at SemEval-2016 Task 1: A Deep Ensemble System for Semantic Textual Similarity
SimiHawk at SemEval-2016 Task 1: A Deep Ensemble System for Semantic Textual Similarity Open
This paper describes the SimiHawk system submission from UMass Lowell for the core Semantic Textual Similarity task at SemEval-2016.We built four systems: a small featurebased system that leverages word alignment and machine translation qu…
View article: MUTT: Metric Unit TesTing for Language Generation Tasks
MUTT: Metric Unit TesTing for Language Generation Tasks Open
Precise evaluation metrics are important for assessing progress in high-level language generation tasks such as machine translation or image captioning.Historically, these metrics have been evaluated using correlation with human judgment.H…
View article: TwitterHawk: A Feature Bucket Based Approach to Sentiment Analysis
TwitterHawk: A Feature Bucket Based Approach to Sentiment Analysis Open
This paper describes TwitterHawk, a system for sentiment analysis of tweets which participated in the SemEval-2015 Task 10, Subtasks A through D. The system performed competitively, most notably placing 1 st in topicbased sentiment classif…