arXiv Computation and Language

Configurable Semantic Chunking for Biomedical Information Extraction in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

The paper introduces a configurable semantic chunking framework for biomedical information extraction in retrieval‑augmented generation systems. It replaces the fixed‑size chunking stage of BioMedRAG with entity‑preserving windows, trigger‑centered chunking, proposition‑first extraction, tiered trigger prioritization, and hierarchical relation resolution, while keeping the rest of the pipeline unchanged. Experiments on relation extraction benchmarks (GM‑CIHT, DDI, ChemProt) and adverse event classification (ADE) show that the hybrid configuration boosts performance on datasets with explicit relation cues, achieving 82.6% F1 on GM‑CIHT compared to 74.2% with the baseline.

arXiv AI
3d ago

From Analytics to Tumor Boards: An Evidence-Linked Multi-Agent Workflow for Oncology Feature Extraction

arXiv:2608.28974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinically relevant oncology information is distributed across heterogeneous, longitudinal documentation, creating substantial abstraction burden and r...

By Daniel Kang, Michelle Hu, Soorya Ram Shimgekar, Shayan Vassef, Yufan Wang, Anit Kumar Sahu, Munmun De Choudhury, Vedant Das Swain, Christian Poellabauer, Li Yan Khor, Koustuv Saha, Robert Wojciechowski, Elliot Kidd, Piyum Zonooz, Navin Kumar
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

A Scalable Cross-Domain Event Extraction System via a Unified Generative Training Framework

The paper introduces a scalable cross‑domain event extraction system built on a unified generative sequence‑to‑sequence framework. It jointly handles event detection and argument extraction, allowing both pipeline and end‑to‑end configurations. By fine‑tuning pretrained language models on multiple event datasets from diverse domains, the system retains domain‑specific semantics while generalizing across large, evolving label spaces, and offers a web‑based application for researchers to upload documents, extract events, visualize triggers and arguments, and compare configurations.

By Siting Liang, Omar Adjali, Omair Shahzad Bhatti, Daniel Sonntag
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

MedRAGChecker: Claim-Level Verification for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation

MedRAGChecker is a claim-level verification framework designed for biomedical retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG). It decomposes generated answers into atomic claims and assesses each claim’s support by combining evidence‑grounded natural language inference with biomedical knowledge‑graph consistency signals. The aggregated claim decisions provide diagnostics that distinguish retrieval and generation failures, such as faithfulness, under‑evidence, contradiction, and safety‑critical errors, and the system is distilled into compact models for scalable evaluation.

By Yuelyu Ji, Min Gu Kwak, Hang Zhang, Xizhi Wu, Chenyu Li, Yanshan Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Structure Over Scale: Schema-Constrained Causal Graphs for RAG

arXiv:2607. 22592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) grounds answers in structured knowledge, but current systems extract entities and relationships exhaustively, producing graphs whose size and construction cost scale with corpus length rather than with the reasoning a query requires.

By Marc Saouda (Boston Consulting Group), Rajprakash Bale (Boston Consulting Group), Eren Aldis (Boston Consulting Group), Cloves Almeida (Boston Consulting Group)
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

Neighborhood-Aware Dual Biomedical Entity Linking

arXiv:2608. 04144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biomedical entity linking grounds mentions in clinical and scientific text to entities in a curated knowledge base (KB) with ontological structure, which supports downstream applications such as literature-scale information extraction and patient-record normalization.

By Yicheng Tao, Jie Liu