Interpretability Can Be ActionableHadas Orgad, Fazl Barez, Tal Haklay, Isabelle Lee, Marius Mosbach, Anja Reusch, Naomi Saphra, Byron C Wallace, Sarah Wiegrefe, Eric Wong, Ian Tenney, Mor GevaProceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
Standardizing the Measurement of Text Diversity: A Tool and Comparative AnalysisChantal Shaib, Venkata S Govindarajan, Joe Barrow, Jiuding Sun, Alexa Siu, Byron C Wallace, Ani NenkovaProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP/AACL), System Demonstrations, 36--46, 2025.
The Dual-Route Model of InductionSheridan Feucht, Eric Todd, Byron C Wallace, David BauProceedings of the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2025.
NNsight and NDIF: Democratizing Access to Foundation Model InternalsJaden Fried Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander Russell Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Koyena Pal, Dmitrii Troitskii, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Can Rager, Caden Juang, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Nikhil Prakash, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell, Byron C. Wallace, David BauProceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
Retrieving Evidence from EHRs with LLMs: Possibilities and Challenges
Hiba Ahsan, Denis Jered McInerney, Jisoo Kim, Christopher A Potter, Geoffrey Young, Silvio Amir, Byron C WallaceProceedings of the ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), 2024.
On-the-fly Definition Augmentation of LLMs for Biomedical NER
Monica Munnangi, Sergey Feldman, Byron C Wallace, Silvio Amir, Tom Hope, Aakanksha NaikProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 3833--3854, 2024.
Towards Reducing Diagnostic Errors with Interpretable Risk Prediction
Denis Jered McInerney, William Dickinson, Lucy C. Flynn, Andrea C Young, Geoffrey Young, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Byron C WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 7193--7210, 2024.
Evaluating the Zero-shot Robustness of Instruction-tuned Language Models
Jiuding Sun, Chantal Shaib, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
Spotlight (top 5\
LLMs Represent Contextual Tasks as Compact Function Vectors
Eric Todd, Millicent Li, Arnab Sen Sharma, Aaron Mueller, Byron C Wallace, David BauProceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
Multilingual Simplification of Medical TextsSebastian Joseph, Kathryn Kazanas, Keziah Reina, Vishnesh J. Ramanathan, Wei Xu, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy LiProceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 16662--16692, 2023.
USB: A Unified Summarization Benchmark Across Tasks and Domains
Kundan Krishna, Prakhar Gupta, Sanjana Ramprasad, Byron C. Wallace, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Zachary C. LiptonProceedings of Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 8826–-8845, 2023.
CHiLL: Zero-shot Custom Interpretable Feature Extraction from Clinical Notes with Large Language Models
Denis Jered McInerney, Geoffrey Young, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Byron C. WallaceProceeding of Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 8477--8494, 2023.
Jointly Extracting Interventions, Outcomes, and Findings from RCT Reports with LLMs
Somin Wadhwa, Jay DeYoung, Benjamin Nye, Silvio Amir, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC), 754--771, 2023.
Accomodating User Expressivity while Maintaining Safety for a Virtual Alcohol Misuse Counselor
Stefán Ólafsson, Paola Pedrelli, Byron C. Wallace, Timothy BickmoreProceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 2023.
Automated Metrics for Medical Multi-Document Summarization Disagree with Human Evaluations
Lucy Lu Wang, Yulia Otmakhova, Jay DeYoung, Thinh Hung Truong, Bailey E. Kuehl, Erin Bransom, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 9871--9889, 2023.
Summarizing, Simplifying, and Synthesizing Medical Evidence using GPT-3 (with Varying Success)
Chantal Shaib, Millicent Liaw Li, Sebastian A. Joseph, Iain J. Marshall, Junyi Jessy Li, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1387--1407, 2023.
Revisiting Relation Extraction in the era of Large Language Models
Somin Wadhwa, Silvio Amir, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 15566--15589, 2023.
PHEE: A Dataset for Pharmacovigilance Event Extraction from TextZhaoyue Sun, Jiazheng Li, Gabriele Pergola, Byron C. Wallace, Bino John, Nigel Greene, Joseph Kim, Yulan HeProceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022.
Influence Functions for Sequence Tagging ModelsSarthak Jain, Varun Manjunatha, Byron C. Wallace, Ani NenkovaProceedings of the Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 824--839, 2022.
Self-Repetition in Abstractive Neural SummarizersNikita Salkar, Thomas Trikalinos, Byron C. Wallace, Ani NenkovaProceedings of the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), 341--350, 2022.
Evaluating Factuality in Text SimplificationAshwin Devaraj, William Berkeley Sheffield, Byron C Wallace, Junyi Jessy LiProceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 7331--7345, 2022.
ACL 2022 Outstanding Paper
Biomedical Interpretable Entity RepresentationsDiego Garcia-Olano, Yasumasa Onoe, Ioana Baldini, Joydeep Ghosh, Byron Wallace, Kush VarshneyProceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 3547--3561, 2021.
An Empirical Comparison of Instance Attribution Methods for NLPPouya Pezeshkpour, Sarthak Jain, Byron Wallace, Sameer SinghProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 967--975, 2021.
Paragraph-level Simplification of Medical TextsAshwin Devaraj, Iain Marshall, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy LiProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 4972--4984, 2021.
Does BERT Pretrained on Clinical Notes Reveal Sensitive Data?Eric Lehman, Sarthak Jain, Karl Pichotta, Yoav Goldberg, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 946--959, 2021.
Query-Focused EHR Summarization to Aid Imaging DiagnosisDenis Jered McInerney, Borna Dabiri, Anne-Sophie Touret, Geoffrey Young, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of Machine Learning in Health Care (MLHC), 2020.
ERASER: A Benchmark to Evaluate Rationalized NLP ModelsJay DeYoung, Sarthak Jain, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Eric Lehman, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 4443--4458, 2020.
Learning to Faithfully Rationalize by ConstructionSarthak Jain, Sarah Wiegreffe, Yuval Pinter, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 4459--4473, 2020.
MMiDaS-AE: Multi-modal Missing Data aware Stacked Autoencoder for Biomedical Abstract Screening
Eric Lee, Byron C. Wallace, Karla Galaviz, Joyce C. HoProceedings of the ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), 139--150, 2020.
Towards a Computational Framework for Automating Substance Use Counseling with Virtual Agents
Stefan Olafsson, Byron C. Wallace, Timothy BickmoreProceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 966--974, 2020.
Are Online Reviews of Physicians BiasedAgainst Female Providers?
Avijit Thawani, Michael J. Paul, Urmimala Sarkar, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of Machine Learning in Health Care (MLHC), 406--423, 2019.
Attention is not ExplanationSarthak Jain, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 3543--3556, 2019.
Structured neural topic models for reviewsBabak Esmaeili, Hongyi Huang, Byron Wallace, Jan-Willem van de MeentProceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATs), 3429--3439, 2019.
Explainable Modeling of Annotations in Crowdsourcing
An Thanh Nguyen, Matthew Lease, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Annual ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference, 575--579, 2019.
Believe it or not: Designing a Human-AI Partnership for Mixed-Initiative Fact-Checking
An Thanh Nguyen, Byron C.\ Wallace, Matthew LeaseProceedings of the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 189--199, 2018.
An Interpretable Joint Graphical Model for Fact-Checking from Crowds
An Thanh Nguyen, Aditya Kharosekar, Matthew Lease, Byron C.\ WallaceProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1511--1518, 2018.
A Neural Candidate-Selector Architecture for Automatic Structured Clinical Text Annotation
Gaurav Singh, Iain Marshall, James Thomas, John Shawe-Taylor, Byron C. WallaceInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 1519--1528, 2017.
Automating Biomedical Evidence Synthesis: RobotReviewerIain Marshall, Jo{\"e}l Kuiper, Edward Banner, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), System Demonstrations, 7--12, 2017.
Aggregating and Predicting Sequence Labels from Crowd Annotations
An Thanh Nguyen, Byron C. Wallace, Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova, Matthew LeaseProceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 299--309, 2017.
PheKnow–Cloud: A Tool for Evaluating High-Throughput Phenotype Candidates using Online Medical Literature
Jette Henderson, Ryan Bridges, Joyce C. Ho, Byron C. Wallace, Joydeep GhoshProceedings of the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, 149 -- 157, 2017.
Recipient of the 2017 AMIA Distinguished Clinical Research Informatics Paper Award.
Using Electronic Medical Records and Physician Data to Improve Information Retrieval for Evidence-Based Care
Mengqi Jin, Hongli Li, Chistopher Schmid, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 61--64, 2016.
A Correlated Worker Model for Grouped, Imbalanced and Multitask Data
An T. Nguyen, Byron C. Wallace, Matthew LeaseProceedings of The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 537--546, 2016.
Probabilistic Modeling for Crowdsourcing Partially-Subjective Ratings
An T. Nguyen, Matthew Halpern, Byron C. Wallace, Matthew LeaseProceedings of The Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 149--158, 2016.
Combining Crowd and Expert Labels Using Decision Theoretic Active Learning
An T. Nguyen, Byron C. Wallace, Matthew LeaseAAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 120--129, 2015.
Sparse, Contextually Informed Models for Irony Detection: Exploiting User Communities, Entities and Sentiment
Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Eugene CharniakProceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 1035--1044, 2015.
Automating Risk of Bias Assessment for Clinical Trials
Iain J. Marshall, Jo{\"e}l Kuiper, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (BCB), 88--95, 2014.
Selected for inclusion in a special issue of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Humans Require Context to Infer Ironic Intent (so Computers Probably do, too)
Byron C. Wallace, Do Kook Choe, Laura Kertz, Eugene CharniakProceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 512--516, 2014.
Spa: a Web-Based Viewer for Text Mining in Evidence Based Medicine
Jo{\"e}l Kuiper, Iain J. Marshall, Byron C. Wallace, Morris A. SwertzProceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), 452--455, 2014.
Discovering Better AAAI Keywords via Clustering with Community-sourced Constraints
Kelly H. Moran, Byron C. Wallace, Carla E. BrodleyProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1265--1271, 2014.
Identifying Differences in Physician Communication Styles with a Log-Linear Transition Component Model
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. Dahabreh, Thomas A. Trikalinos, M. Barton Laws, Ira B. Wilson, Eugene CharniakProceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1314--1320, 2014.
Multiple Narrative Disentanglement: Unraveling Infinite Jest
Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), 1--10, 2012.
Deploying an Interactive Machine Learning System in an Evidence-Based Practice Center: abstrackr
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, Joseph Lau, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, 819--824, 2012.
Class Probability Estimates are Unreliable for Imbalanced Data (and How to Fix Them)
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. DahabrehProceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 695--704, 2012.
Selected as one of the `best of ICDM-2012'.
2011
Class Imbalance, Redux
Byron C. Wallace, K. Small, Carla E. Brodley, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 754--763, 2011.
Who Should Label What? Instance Allocation in Multiple Expert Active Learning
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 176-187, 2011.
The Constrained Weight Space SVM: Learning with Ranked Features
Kevin Small, Byron C. Wallace, Carla E. Brodley, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 754--763, 2011.
2010
Active Learning for Biomedical Citation Screening
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 173--182, 2010.
Modeling Annotation Time to Reduce Workload in Comparative Effectiveness Reviews
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, Joseph Lau, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI), 28--35, 2010.
Journal Articles
2024
Artificial intelligence in food and nutrition evidence: The challenges and opportunities
Regan L Bailey, Amanda J MacFarlane, Martha S Field, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Sergio E Baranzini, Kristen M Edwards, Christopher J Rose, Nicholas J Schork, Akshat Singhal, Byron C Wallace, othersPNAS nexus, 3(12), pgae461, 2024.
In a pilot study, automated real-time systematic review updates were feasible, accurate, and work-saving
Iain J Marshall, Thomas A Trikalinos, Frank Soboczenski, Hye Sun Yun, Gregory Kell, Rachel Marshall, Byron C WallaceJournal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2022.
Accuracy and Efficiency of Machine Learning–Assisted Risk-of-Bias Assessments in ).replace("''", Real-World'' Systematic Reviews: A Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial
Anneliese Arno, James Thomas, Byron C. Wallace, Iain J Marshall, Joanne E McKenzie, Julian H ElliottAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2022.
Semi-Automated Evidence Synthesis in Health Psychology: Current Methods and Future Prospects
Iain J. Marshall, Blair T. Johnson, Zigeng Wang, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Byron C. WallaceHealth Psychology Review, 14(1), 145--158, 2020.
2019
Toward systematic review automation: a practical guide to using machine learning tools in research synthesis
Iain J. Marshall, Byron C. WallaceSystematic Reviews, 8(19), 2019.
Machine learning to help researchers evaluate biases in clinical trials: a prospective, randomized user study
Frank Soboczenski, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Joël Kuiper, Randolph G. Bias, Byron C. Wallace, Iain J. MarshallBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 19, 2019.
Rapid Reviews may Produce Different Results to Systematic Reviews: A Metaepidemiological Study
Iain J. Marshall, Rachel Marshall, Byron C. Wallace, Jon Brassey, James ThomasJournal of Clinical Epidemiology, 109, 30--41, 2019.
2018
PIVET: A Scaled Phenotype Evidence Generation Framework using Online Medical Literature
Jette Henderson, Junyuan Ke, Joyce C. Ho, Joydeep Ghosh, Byron C. WallaceJournal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 20, 2018.
Living Systematic Reviews: 2. Combining Human and Machine Effort
James Thomas, Anna Noel-Storr, Iain Marshall, Byron C. Wallace, Steven McDonald, Chris Mavergames, Paul Glasziou, Ian Shemilt, Anneliese Synnot, Tari Turner, othersJournal of Clinical Epidemiology, 31-37, 2017.
Neural Information Retrieval: At the End of the Early Years
Kezban Dilek Onal, Ye Zhang, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Md Mustafizur Rahman, Pinar Karagoz, Alex Braylan, Brandon Dang, Heng-Lu Chang, Henna Kim, Quinten McNamara, Aaron Angert, Edward Banner, Vivek Khetan, Tyler McDonnell, An Thanh Nguyen, Dan Xu, Byron C.\ Wallace, Maarten de Rijke, Matthew LeaseInformation Retrieval, 1--72, 2017.
OpenMEE: Intuitive, open-source software for meta-analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology
Byron C. Wallace, Marc J. Lajeunesse, George Dietz, Issa J. Dahabreh, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Christopher H. Schmid, Jessica GurevitchMethods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 941--947, 2017.
2016
Evaluating Data Abstraction Assistant, a novel software application for data abstraction during systematic reviews: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Ian J Saldanha, Christopher H Schmid, Joseph Lau, Kay Dickersin, Jesse A Berlin, Jens Jap, Bryant T Smith, Simona Carini, Wiley Chan, Berry De Bruijn, othersSystematic reviews, 5(1), 196, 2016.
Characterizing the (Perceived) Newsworthiness of Health Science Articles: A Data-Driven Approach
Ye Zhang, Erin Willis, Michael J Paul, No{\'e}mie Elhadad, Byron C WallaceJMIR Medical Informatics, 4(3), e27, 2016.
Improving the Utility of MeSH Terms using the TopicalMeSH Representation
Zhiguo Yu, Elmer Bernstam, Trevor Cohen, Byron C. Wallace, Todd R. JohnsonJournal of Biomedical Informatics, 61, 77--86, 2016.
Automating Risk of Bias Assessment for Clinical Trials
Iain J. Marshall, Joël Kuiper, Byron C. WallaceJournal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 19(4), 1406--1412, 2015.
(An invited journal version of our 2014 ACM-BCB paper of the same the title.)
2014
A Large-Scale Quantitative Analysis of Latent Factors and Sentiment in Online Doctor Reviews
Byron C. Wallace, Michael J. Paul, Urmimala Sarkar, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Mark DredzeJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 21, 1098--1103, 2014.
Automatically Annotating Topics in Transcripts of Patient-Provider Interactions via Machine Learning
Byron C. Wallace, M. Barton Laws, Kevin Small, Ira B. Wilson, Thomas A. TrikalinosMedical Decision Making, 34(4), 503--512, 2014.
Highlighted in an editorial piece entitled ).replace("''", From Text Tagging to Decision Support'' by HP Lehmann, MDM, 2014 ().
Improving Class Probability Estimates for Imbalanced Data
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. DahabrehKnowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 41, 33--52, 2014.
2013
Modernizing the systematic review process to inform comparative effectiveness: tools and methods
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. Dahabreh, Chistopher H. Schmid, Joseph Lau, Thomas A. TrikalinosJournal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2(3), 273--282, 2013.
Computational irony: A survey and new perspectives
Byron C. WallaceArtificial Intelligence Review, 43(4), 1--17, 2013.
2012
Toward Modernizing the Systematic Review Pipeline in Genetics: Efficient Updating via Data Mining
Byron C. Wallace, Kevin Small, Carla E. Brodley, Joseph Lau, Christopher H. Schmid, Lars Bertram, Christina M. Lill, Joshua T. Cohen, Thomas A. TrikalinosGenetics in Medicine, 14(7), 663--669, 2012.
Closing the Gap between Methodologists and End-Users: R as a Computational Back-End
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. Dahabreh, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Joseph Lau, Paul Trow, Christopher H. SchmidJournal of Statistical Software, 49(5), 1--15, 2012.
Challenges and Opportunities in Applied Machine Learning
Carla E. Brodley, Umaa Rebbapragada, Kevin Small, Byron C. WallaceArtificial Intelligence Magazine, 33(1), 11--24, 2012.
2011
Single Cell Time-resolved Quorum Responses Reveal Dependence on Cell Density and Configuration
RD Whitaker, S Pember, BC Wallace, CE Brodley, DR WaltJournal of Biological Chemistry, 286(24), 21623--21632, 2011.
2010
Semi-Automated Screening of Biomedical Citations for Systematic Reviews
Byron C. Wallace, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Joseph Lau, Carla E. Brodley, Christopher H. SchmidBMC Bioinformatics, 11(1), 55+, 2010.
The COPD Genetic Association Compendium: A Comprehensive Online Database of COPD Genetic Associations
PJ Castaldi, MH Cho, M Cohn, F Langerman, S Moran, N Tarragona, H Moukhachen, R Venugopal, D Hasimja, E Kao, BC Wallace, CP Hersh, S Bagade, L Bertram, EK Silverman, TA TrikalinosHuman Molecular Genetics, 19(3), 526--534, 2010.
2009
Meta-Analyst: Software for Meta-analysis of Binary, Continuous and Diagnostic Data
Byron C. Wallace, Christopher H. Schmid, Joseph Lau, Thomas A. TrikalinosBMC Medical Research Methodology, 9(1), 80+, 2009.
Workshop & Symposium Papers
2024
Open (Clinical) LLMs are Sensitive to Instruction Phrasings
Alberto Mario Ceballos-Arroyo, Monica Munnangi, Jiuding Sun, Karen Zhang, Jered McInerney, Byron C. Wallace, Silvio AmirProceedings of the BioNLP Workshop, 2024.
How Much Annotation is Needed to Compare Summarization Models?
Chantal Shaib, Joe Barrow, Alexa Siu, Byron Wallace, Ani NenkovaProceedings of the Workshop of HCI + NLP, 2024.
Learning to Ask Like a PhysicianEric Lehman, Vladislav Lialin, Katelyn Edelwina Legaspi, Anne Janelle Sy, Patricia Therese Pile, Nicole Rose Alberto, Richard Raymund Ragasa, Corinna Victoria Puyat, Marianne Katharina Tali{\~n}o, Isabelle Rose Alberto, Pia Gabrielle Alfonso, Dana Moukheiber, Byron C. Wallace, Anna Rumshisky, Jennifer Liang, Preethi Raghavan, Leo Anthony Celi, Peter SzolovitsProceedings of the 4th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, 74--86, 2022.
Evidence Inference 2.0: More Data, Better ModelsJay DeYoung, Eric Lehman, Benjamin Nye, Iain Marshall, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of BioNLP; co-located with the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.
2019
Browsing Health: Information Extraction to Support New Interfaces for Accessing Medical Evidence
Soham Parikh, Elizabeth Conrad, Oshin Agarwal, Iain Marshall, Byron C. Wallace, Ani NenkovaWorkshop on extracting structured knowledge from scientific publications (ESSP); co-located with Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019.
An Analysis of Attention over Clinical Notes for Predictive TasksSarthak Jain, Ramin Mohammadi, Byron C.\ WallaceThe 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop; co-located with Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019.
MASH: software tools for developing interactive and transparent machine learning systems
An Thanh Nguyen, Matthew Lease, Byron C.\ WallaceProceedings of ACM IUI Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS), 2019.
2017
Detecting Twitter posts with Adverse Drug Reactions using Convolutional Neural Networks
Sarthak Jain, Xun Peng, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications Workshop co-located with the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), 72--75, 2017.
Identifying Diagnostic Test Accuracy Publications using a Deep Model
Gaurav Singh, Iain Marshall, James Thomas, Byron C. WallaceCLEF eHealth, 2017.
2016
Leveraging Coreference to Identify Arms in Medical Abstracts: An Experimental Study
Elisa Ferracane, Iain Marshall, Byron C. Wallace, Katrin ErkThe International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis at EMNLP, 2016.
Retrofitting Word Vectors of MeSH Terms to Improve Semantic Similarity Measures
Zhiguo Yu, Trevor Cohen, Todd R. Johnson, Byron C. Wallace, Elmer BernstamThe International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis at EMNLP, 2016.
Automated Verification of Phenotypes using PubMed
Ryan Bridges, Jette Henderson, Joyce Ho, Byron C Wallace, Joydeep GhoshProceedings of the Workshop on Methods and Applications in Healthcare Analytics at ACM-BCB, 2016.
Systematic Review is e-Discovery in Doctor's Clothing
Matthew Lease, Cormack V. Gordon, An Thanh Nguyen, Thomas A. Trikalinos, Byron C. WallaceProceedings of the Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop at the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2016.
2015
Healthcare Data Analytics Challenge
Yu Zhiguo, Byron C. Wallace, Todd R. JohnsonProceedings of the International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2015.
(Describes our submission to the challenge, which won first place.)
What Predicts Media Coverage of Health Science Articles?
Byron C. Wallace, Michael J. Paul, Noemie ElhadadProceedings of the International Workshop on the World Wide Web and Public Health Intelligence (W3PHI), 2015.
2013
Active Literature Discovery for Scoping Evidence Reviews: How Many Needles are There?
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. Dahabreh, Kelly H. Moran, Carla E. Brodley, Thomas A. TrikalinosProceedings of the KDD Workshop on Data Mining for Healthcare (KDD-DMH), 2013.
What Affects Patient (Dis)satisfaction? Analyzing Online Doctor Ratings with a Joint Topic-Sentiment Model
Michael J. Paul, Byron C. Wallace, Mark DredzeProceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Expanding the Boundaries of Health Informatics Using AI (HIAI), 2013.
Book Chapters
2022
Intelligent Agents and Dialog Systems
Timothy Bickmore, Byron C. WallaceIntelligent Systems in Medicine and Health: The Role of AI, 2022.
2013
Modernizing Evidence Synthesis for Evidence-Based Medicine
Byron C. Wallace, Issa J. Dahabreh, Christopher H. Schmid, Joseph Lau, Thomas A. TrikalinosClinical Decision Support (Second Edition), 2013.
Commentaries & Editorials
2019
Invited Early Career Spotlight Extended Abstract: What Does the Evidence Say? Models to Help Make Sense of the Biomedical Literature
Byron C. WallaceInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 6416--6420, 2019.
2015
Editorial: Special Issue on Machine Learning for Health and Medicine
Jenna Wiens, Byron C. WallaceMachine Learning Journal, 1--3, 2015.
Invited Response: Using Text Mining for Study identification in Systematic Reviews: a Systematic Review of Current Approaches
Byron C. Wallace, Iain J. MarshallCochrane Methods, 2015.
2014
\#CochraneTech: Technology and the Future of Systematic Reviews
Julian Elliott, Ida Sim, Jessica Thomas, Nancy Owens, Gordon Dooley, Jacob Riis, Byron Wallace, James Thomas, Anna Noel-Storr, Gabriel Rada, Caroline Struthers, Tracey Howe, Harriet MacLehose, Linn Brandt, Ilkka Kunnamo, Chris MavergamesThe Cochrane Library, 2014.
2012
Invited Response: Applications of Text Mining Within Systematic Reviews
Byron C. Wallace, Thomas A. TrikalinosCochrane Methods, 2012.