Jeff Zhang


2024

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NYULangone at Chemotimelines 2024: Utilizing Open-Weights Large Language Models for Chemotherapy Event Extraction
Jeff Zhang | Yin Aphinyanaphongs | Anthony Cardillo
Proceedings of the 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop

The extraction of chemotherapy treatment timelines from clinical narratives poses significant challenges due to the complexity of medical language and patient-specific treatment regimens. This paper describes the NYULangone team’s approach to Subtask 2 of the Chemotimelines 2024 shared task, focusing on leveraging a locally hosted Large Language Model (LLM), Mixtral 8x7B (Mistral AI, France), to interpret and extract relevant events from clinical notes without relying on domain-specific training data. Despite facing challenges due to the task’s complexity and the current capacity of open-source AI, our methodology highlights the future potential of local foundational LLMs in specialized domains like biomedical data processing.