2021

[67]  Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, Yuhao Zhang, Chaitanya Shivade, Curtis Langlotz, and Dina Demner-Fushman. Overview of the MEDIQA 2021 Shared Task on Summarization in the Medical Domain. NAACL-BioNLP 2021.  

[66]  Asma Ben Abacha, Mourad Sarrouti, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sadid A. Hasan, and Henning Müller. Overview of the VQA-Med Task at ImageCLEF 2021: Visual Question Answering and Generation in the Medical Domain. CLEF 2021.   

[65] Obioma Pelka, Asma Ben Abacha, Alba García Seco de Herrera, Janadhip Jacutprakart, Christoph M. Friedrich, and Henning Müller. Overview of the ImageCLEF 2021 Concept & Caption Generation Task. CLEF 2021.   

[64]  Mourad Sarrouti, Asma Ben Abacha, and Dina Demner-Fushman. Multi-Task Transfer Learning with Data Augmentation for Recognizing Question Entailment in the Medical Domain. IEEE-ICHI 2021. 

[63] Mourad Sarrouti, Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, and Dina Demner-Fushman. Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related Claims. Findings of EMNLP 2021.   

[62] Mourad Sarrouti, Asma Ben Abacha, and Dina Demner-Fushman.  Goal-driven visual question generation from radiology images.  MDPI Information Journal 2021, 12(8), 334.  

[61]  Mourad Sarrouti, Deepak Gupta, Asma Ben Abacha, and Dina Demner-Fushman.  NLM at BioASQ Synergy 2021: Deep Learning-based Methods for Biomedical Semantic Question Answering about COVID-19. CLEF 2021. 

[60]  Shweta Yadav, Deepak Gupta, Asma Ben Abacha, and Dina Demner-Fushman.  Reinforcement Learning for Abstractive Question Summarization with Question-aware Semantic Rewards. ACL 2021.  

[59] Shweta Yadav, Deepak Gupta, Asma Ben Abacha, and Dina Demner-Fushman. Question-aware Transformer Models for Consumer Health Question Summarization. arXiv 2021.  

[58] Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Renaud Péteri, Asma Ben Abacha, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sadid A. Hasan, Mourad Sarrouti, Obioma Pelka, Christoph M. Friedrich, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Janadhip Jacutprakart, Vassili Kovalev, Serge Kozlovski, Vitali Liauchuk, Yashin Dicente Cid, Jon Chamberlain, Adrian F. Clark, Antonio Campello, Hassan Moustahfid, Thomas Oliver, Abigail Schulz, Paul Brie, Raul Berari, Dimitri Fichou, Andrei Tauteanu, Mihai Dogariu, Liviu-Daniel Stefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin, Jérôme Deshayes, Adrian Popescu. The 2021 ImageCLEF Benchmark: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Nature, Internet and Social Media Applications. ECIR (2) 2021: 616-623

2019 

[50] Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman. On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions. Accepted at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Florence, Italy 2019.   Paper (PDF)    MeQSum dataset 

[49] Asma Ben Abacha, Chaitanya Shivade & Dina Demner-Fushman. Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering. ACL-BioNLP 2019, Florence, Italy 2019.  Paper (PDF)    Website   MEDIQA-19@GitHub (Data & Evaluation Code)  MEDIQA-19@AIcrowd (Submissions & Results)  

[48] Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, Mark Sharp,  Travis Goodwin, Sonya E. Shooshan and Dina Demner-Fushman. Bridging the Gap between Consumers’ Medication Questions and Trusted Answers. Accepted at the 17th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO, Lyon, France 2019.  LINK  DATA 

[47] Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman. On the Role of Question Summarization and Information Source Restriction in Consumer Health Question Answering. AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, San Francisco, CA, 2019.  PDF 

[46] Asma Ben Abacha,  Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek V. Datla, Joey Liu, Dina Demner-Fushman & Henning Müller.  VQA-Med: Overview of the Medical Visual Question Answering Task at ImageCLEF 2019. CLEF 2019 Working Notes.  PDF    Website   VQA-Med-19@GitHub    VQA-Med-19@crowdAI  

[45] Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Renaud Péteri, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Luca Piras, Michael Riegler, Minh-Triet Tran, Mathias Lux, Cathal Gurrin, Yashin Dicente Cid, Vitali Liauchuk, Vassili Kovalev, Asma Ben Abacha, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek V. Datla, Joey Liu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Obioma Pelka, Christoph M. Friedrich, Jon Chamberlain, Adrian F. Clark, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Narciso García, Ergina Kavallieratou, Carlos Roberto del-Blanco, Carlos Cuevas, Nikos Vasilopoulos, Konstantinos Karampidis. ImageCLEF 2019: Multimedia Retrieval in Lifelogging, Medical, Nature, and Security Applications. ECIR (2) 2019: 301-308

[44] Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman. A Question-Entailment Approach to Question Answering.  BMC Bioinformatics, 2019. LINK 

• • •  MedQuAD dataset  

2017

[40] Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman. NLM NIH at SemEval-2017 Task 3 : from Question Entailment to Question Similarity for Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of SemEval@ACL, Vancouver, Canada, 2017. PDF

[39] Asma Ben Abacha, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Ke Wang, L. Rodney Long, Sameer Antani & Dina Demner-Fushman. Named Entity Recognition in Functional Neuroimaging Literature. In Proceedings of IEEE BIBM, Kansas City, MO, 2017. PDF

[38] Asma Ben Abacha, Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera, Soumya Gayen, Dina Demner-Fushman & Sameer Antani. NLM at ImageCLEF 2017 Caption Task. CLEF 2017 Working Notes (Systems ranked first in both tasks) PDF

[37] Asma Ben Abacha, Eugene Agichtein, Yuval Pinter & Dina Demner-Fushman. Overview of the Medical QA Task @ TREC 2017 LiveQA Track. TREC, Gaithersburg, MD, 2017. LINK  DATA PDF

2015

[29] Asma Ben Abacha & Pierre Zweigenbaum. MEANS: a Medical Question-Answering System Combining NLP Techniques and Semantic Web Technologies. Information Processing & Management Journal, Elsevier, 2015 [Impact Factor (2014): 1.069. ERA 2010 ranking: A]. PDF  LINK

[28] Asma Ben Abacha, Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet, Alberto Lavelli & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Text Mining for Pharmacovigilance: Using Machine Learning for Drug Recognition and Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction and Classification. Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), 2015 [Impact Factor (2014): 2.194].   PDF   LINK

[27] Asma Ben Abacha, Duy Dinh & Yassine Mrabet. Semantic Analysis and Automatic Corpus Construction for Entailment Recognition in Medical Texts. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'15), Pavia, Italy, 2015. LINK PDF

[26] Asma Ben Abacha, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet & Julio Cesar Dos Reis. LIST-LUX: Disorder Identification from Clinical Texts. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval'15), associated with NAACL-HLT'15, Denver, Colorado, 2015. PDF

[25] Asma Ben Abacha & Saoussen Khelifi. LIST at TREC 2015 Clinical Decision Support Track: Question Analysis and Unsupervised Result Fusion. In Proceedings of TREC 2015, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2015. PDF  -- System ranked second (over 92 participating runs).

2013

[21] Asma Ben Abacha, Marcos Da Silveira & Cédric Pruski. Medical Ontology Validation through Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Murcia, Spain, 2013. LINK PDF

[20] Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum & Aurélien Max. Automatic Information Extraction in the Medical Domain by Cross-Lingual Projection. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2013. PDF

[19] Asma Ben Abacha, Marcos Da Silveira & Cédric Pruski. Une approche pour la validation du contenu d'une ontologie par un système à base de questions/réponses. In: IC'13, Lille, France, 2013. PDF

2011

[12] Asma Ben Abacha & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Automatic Extraction of Semantic Relations between Medical Entities: a Rule Based Approach. Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBS), 2011. PDF LINK

[11] Anne-Lyse Minard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Asma Ben Abacha, Delphine Bernhard, Bruno Cartoni, Louise Deléger, Brigitte Grau, Sophie Rosset, Pierre Zweigenbaum, & Cyril Grouin. Hybrid methods for improving information access in clinical documents: Concept, assertion, and relation identification. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 2011. PDF   LINK   Abstract (PubMed)

[10] Asma Ben Abacha & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Medical Entity Recognition: A Comparison of Semantic and Statistical Methods. In Proceedings of the 10th ACL workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2011. PDF

[9] Asma Ben Abacha & Pierre Zweigenbaum. A Hybrid Approach for the Extraction of Semantic Relations from MEDLINE Abstracts. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistic (CICLing), Tokyo, Japan, 2011. LINK PDF

[8] Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Asma Ben Abacha, Alberto Lavelli & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Two Different Machine Learning Techniques for Drug-Drug Interaction Extraction. In Proceedings of the first DDIExtraction2011 workshop at the 27th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), Huelva, Spain, 2011. PDF  -- System ranked second. 

[7] Asma Ben Abacha & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Une approche hybride pour la détection automatique des relations sémantiques entre entités médicales. Journées francophones d'informatique médicale (JFIM), Tunis, Tunisie, 2011. PDF

[6] Cyril Grouin, Louise Deléger, Anne-Lyse Minard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Asma Ben Abacha, Delphine Bernhard, Bruno Cartoni, Brigitte Grau, Sophie Rosset, & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Extraction d'informations médicales au LIMSI. In Démonstrations, TALN 2011, Montpellier, 2011. PDF

2009

[1] Asma Ben Abacha. Questions-réponses dans le domaine médical : une approche sémantique. In MajecSTIC 2009, Avignon, November 16-18, 2009. PDF