Biomedical ontology normalization maps free-text expressions to standardized concepts, enabling consistent integration and analysis of biomedical data. This task remains challenging because lexical va...
arXiv:2609.08174v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce OntologyBench, a tiered biomedical retrieval benchmark comprising 471,854 training and 125,744 evaluation query-document relevance pairs a...
By Xiao Yu Cindy Zhang, Wyeth Wasserman, Jian Zhu
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
The paper introduces Hyperbolic Clinical Ontology Embeddings (HCOE), a method that transforms frozen BioBERT embeddings into a Poincaré ball to capture medical code hierarchies. HCOE employs ontology-guided contrastive learning and coarse‑to‑fine ontology‑path aggregation, leveraging ICD, CCS, and ATC hierarchies. Experiments on MIMIC‑IV demonstrate superior performance in clinical relation prediction, hierarchy transfer, and various predictive tasks such as mortality, readmission, medication recommendation, and rare drug prediction.
By Yixuan Li, Weihao Li, Ziyang Song
arXiv:2610.18672v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Biomedical language models (LMs) provide strong representations for clinical tasks, but they often fail to capture the hierarchical structure among m...
By Ziyang Song, Lia Shen, Yixuan Li, Qincheng Lu, Weihao Li, Haoran Xu, He Zhu, Xinyu Wang, Yue Li
arXiv:2608.31118v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The effect of Large Language Model (LLM) scale on ontology learning (OL) performance remains insufficiently characterized. We present a controlled eval...
By Hamed Babaei Giglou, S\"oren Auer, Jennifer D'Souza