Dongfang Xu

Researcher, Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Joined

August 2021

Names

Dongfang Xu (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@email.arizona.edu (Confirmed)

****@cshs.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Cedars Sinai Medical Center (cshs.org)

2023 – Present

Researcher

Philips Research (philips.com)

2022 – 2022

Postdoc

Harvard University (harvard.edu)

2021 – 2022

PhD student

University of Arizona (arizona.edu)

2015 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Davy Weissenbacher

2023 – Present

Coworker

Graciela Gonzalez

2023 – Present

Postdoc Advisor

Timothy Miller

2021 – 2022

PhD Advisor

Steven Bethard

2016 – 2020

Expertise

Medical Concept Normalization

2015 – Present

NLP

2015 – Present

Information Extraction

2015 – Present

Publications

BCH-NLP at BioCreative VII Track 3: medications detection in tweets using transformer networks and multi-task learning
Dongfang Xu, Shan Chen, Timothy Miller
- 2021 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
A Scoping Review of Publicly Available Language Tasks in Clinical Natural Language Processing
Yanjun Gao, Dmitriy Dligach, Leslie Christensen, Samuel Tesch, Ryan Laffin, Dongfang Xu, Timothy Miller, Özlem Uzuner, Matthew M. Churpek, Majid Afshar
- 2021 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Triplet-Trained Vector Space and Sieve-Based Search Improve Biomedical Concept Normalization
Dongfang Xu, Steven Bethard
- 2021 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- BioNLP@NAACL-HLT 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-class Hierarchical Question Classification for Multiple Choice Science Exams
Dongfang Xu, Peter A. Jansen, Jaycie Martin, Zhengnan Xie, Vikas Yadav, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Clark
- 2020 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- LREC 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Unified Medical Language System resources improve sieve-based generation and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based ranking for concept normalization
Dongfang Xu, Manoj Gopale, Jiacheng Zhang, Kris Brown, Edmon Begoli, Steven Bethard
- 2020 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 2020
- Readers: Everyone
A Generate-and-Rank Framework with Semantic Type Regularization for Biomedical Concept Normalization
Dongfang Xu, Zeyu Zhang, Steven Bethard
- 2020 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- ACL 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-class Hierarchical Question Classification for Multiple Choice Science Exams
Dongfang Xu, Peter A. Jansen, Jaycie Martin, Zhengnan Xie, Vikas Yadav, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Clark
- 2019 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- CoRR 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Pre-trained Contextualized Character Embeddings Lead to Major Improvements in Time Normalization: a Detailed Analysis
Dongfang Xu, Egoitz Laparra, Steven Bethard
- 2019 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- *SEM@NAACL-HLT 2019
- Readers: Everyone
UArizona at the MADE1.0 NLP Challenge
Dongfang Xu, Vikas Yadav, Steven Bethard
- 2018 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- Medication and Adverse Drug Event Detection 2018
- Readers: Everyone
SemEval 2018 Task 6: Parsing Time Normalizations
Egoitz Laparra, Dongfang Xu, Ahmed Elsayed, Steven Bethard, Martha Palmer
- 2018 (modified: 11 Mar 2022)
- SemEval@NAACL-HLT 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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