Irbaz Bin Riaz
Author directory2026
SentryLine: Evidence-Grounded Question Answering over Evolving Documents in Oncology Care
Tampu Ravi Kumar | Gaurav Najpande | Muhammad Ali Khan | Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani | Karan Kathuria | Shorya Azriel Moses | Yuvraj Kalia | M Bassam Sonbol | Irbaz Bin Riaz | Vivek Gupta
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Tampu Ravi Kumar | Gaurav Najpande | Muhammad Ali Khan | Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani | Karan Kathuria | Shorya Azriel Moses | Yuvraj Kalia | M Bassam Sonbol | Irbaz Bin Riaz | Vivek Gupta
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Oncology care operates at constant pressure of absorbing rapidly evolving evidence base in biomedicine. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) addresses this through living guidelines, but the format introduces a new burden: any recommendation can change at any point, across multiple versioned documents. We present SENTRYLINE, a living guideline-aware clinical question answering system. SENTRYLINE retrieves guideline passages through a vectorless hierarchical RAG pipeline and returns a role-specific answer with inline citations, factual and temporal verification reports, and drift detection notes that surface when a guideline has been updated. We construct ASCOBENCH, a benchmark of 405 three-turn conversations across four question categories with gold answers from expert annotators(clinicians), and use test set to evaluate SENTRYLINE against five baselines under an LLM-as-judge framework. Experiments across three generation backbones show consistent improvements over four retrieval baselines and ASCO’s guideline assistant, with particularly strong gains on Reasoning and Role-Specific questions where multi-hop synthesis and register adaptation are required.
FD-NL2SQL: Feedback-Driven Clinical NL2SQL that Improves with Use
Suparno Roy Chowdhury | Tejas Anvekar | Manan Roy Choudhury | Muhammad Ali Khan | Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani | M Bassam Sonbol | Irbaz Bin Riaz | Vivek Gupta
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Suparno Roy Chowdhury | Tejas Anvekar | Manan Roy Choudhury | Muhammad Ali Khan | Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani | M Bassam Sonbol | Irbaz Bin Riaz | Vivek Gupta
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Clinicians exploring oncology trial repositories often need ad-hoc, multi-constraint queries over biomarkers, endpoints, interventions, and time, yet writing SQL requires schema expertise. We demo FD-NL2SQL, a feedback-driven clinical NL2SQL assistant for SQLite-based oncology databases. Given a natural-language question, a schema-aware LLM decomposes it into predicate-level sub-questions, retrieves semantically similar expert-verified NL2SQL exemplars via sentence embeddings, and synthesizes executable SQL conditioned on the decomposition, retrieved exemplars, and schema, with post-processing validity checks. To improve with use, FD-NL2SQL incorporates two update signals: (i) clinician edits of generated SQL are approved and added to the exemplar bank; and (ii) lightweight logic-based SQL augmentation applies a single atomic mutation (e.g., operator or column change), retaining variants only if they return non-empty results. A second LLM generates the corresponding natural-language question and predicate decomposition for accepted variants, automatically expanding the exemplar bank without additional annotation. The demo interface exposes decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and execution results to support interactive refinement and continuous improvement.