Abstract Diagnostic Errors are the leading cause of patients’ harm in modern medicine. Our team developed the national diagnostic excellence tool to assess diagnostic performance. In this study we showcase the role of NLP in[…]

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Abstract Chatbots are rapidly becoming the primary interface through which people consume information. By replacing search and synthesis with direct answers, these systems reduce cognitive effort and enable powerful new forms of knowledge interaction. At[…]

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Abstract How do we better facilitate fine-grained corpus analysis at scale, for example, investigating marketing strategies from millions of documents? We propose HiCode, a two-part LLM pipeline to scale the nuanced analyses that researchers typically[…]

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Abstract Conversational agents are rapidly becoming a default interface for information access and everyday work. Their societal impacts, however, are mediated by interaction: what context is retrieved, how responses are generated over multiple turns, and[…]

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Abstract Progress in 3D reconstruction and generation has accelerated rapidly, producing increasingly detailed geometry and photorealistic rendering. However, moving beyond photorealism requires models that not only look correct, but are also semantically grounded and physically[…]

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Abstract Geriatrics Engineering @ Johns Hopkins is a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Schools of Engineering and Medicine. Based at a new state-of-the-art facility on the Bayview Campus, this initiative brings together engineers, clinicians, caregivers,[…]

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Abstract Over the last quarter century, there has been tremendous progress in natural language processing tasks such as machine translation, moving from “eMpTy promises” to an everyday tool. This talk reflects on key drivers for[…]

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