arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

OntologyAligner: Ontology-Aligned Retrieval and Hierarchy-Guided Large Language Model Reranking for Biomedical Ontology Normalization

arXiv:2609.10055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biomedical ontology normalization maps free-text expressions to standardized concepts, enabling consistent integration and analysis of biomedical dat...

By Jie Song, Zhichuan Xu, Ziyu Lu, Meng Xiao, Cheng Bi, Yuxin Zhang, Xin Zheng, Xiaoran Li, Qiongfang Cao, Hao Yang, Bairong Shen
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
arXiv AI
Sep 28

HCOE: Hyperbolic Clinical Ontology Embeddings from Biomedical Language Models

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