Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks)

ArgHiTZ at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Two-Step Divide and Conquer Approach to Patient Question Answering for Top Factuality Adrian Cuadron Cortes author Aimar Sagasti author Maitane Urruela author Iker De La Iglesia author Ane García Domingo-aldama author Aitziber Atutxa Salazar author Josu Goikoetxea author Ander Barrena author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 cuadron-cortes-etal-2025-arghitz 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.1 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.1/ 2025-08 1 10 UNIBUC-SD at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Prompting Our Way to Clinical QA with Multi-Model Ensembling Dragos Ghinea author Ștefania Rîncu author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 ghinea-rincu-2025-unibuc 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.2 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.2/ 2025-08 11 21 Loyola at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Exploring Unsupervised Attribution of Generated Text: Attention and Clustering-Based Methods Rohan Sethi author Timothy A Miller author Majid Afshar author Dmitriy Dligach author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 sethi-etal-2025-loyola 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.3 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.3/ 2025-08 22 26 CUNI-a at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Do we need Giant LLMs for Clinical QA? Vojtech Lanz author Pavel Pecina author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 lanz-pecina-2025-cuni 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.4 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.4/ 2025-08 27 40 WisPerMed at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Modular, Relevance-First Approach for Grounded Question Answering on Eletronic Health Records Jan-Henning Büns author Hendrik Damm author Tabea Pakull author Felix Nensa author Elisabeth Livingstone author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 buns-etal-2025-wispermed 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.5 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.5/ 2025-08 41 49 heiDS at ArchEHR-QA 2025: From Fixed-k to Query-dependent-k for Retrieval Augmented Generation Ashish Chouhan author Michael Gertz author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 chouhan-gertz-2025-heids 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.6 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.6/ 2025-08 50 61 UniBuc-SB at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Resource-Constrained Pipeline for Relevance Classification and Grounded Answer Synthesis Sebastian Balmus author Dura Bogdan author Ana Sabina Uban author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 balmus-etal-2025-unibuc 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.7 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.7/ 2025-08 62 68 KR Labs at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Verbatim Approach for Evidence-Based Question Answering Adam Kovacs author Paul Schmitt author Gabor Recski author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 kovacs-etal-2025-kr 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.8 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.8/ 2025-08 69 74 LAILab at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Test-time scaling for evidence selection in grounded question answering from electronic health records Tuan Dung Le author Thanh Duong author Shohreh Haddadan author Behzad Jazayeri author Brandon Manley author Thanh Thieu author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 le-etal-2025-lailab 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.9 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.9/ 2025-08 75 80 UTSA-NLP at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Improving EHR Question Answering via Self-Consistency Prompting Sara Shields-Menard author Zach Reimers author Joshua Gardner author David Perry author Anthony Rios author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 shields-menard-etal-2025-utsa 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.10 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.10/ 2025-08 81 90 UTSamuel at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Clinical Question Answering System for Responding to Patient Portal Messages Using Generative AI Samuel Reason author Liwei Wang author Hongfang Liu author Ming Huang author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 reason-etal-2025-utsamuel 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.11 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.11/ 2025-08 91 95 LAMAR at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Clinically Aligned LLM-Generated Few-Shot Learning for EHR-Grounded Patient Question Answering Seksan Yoadsanit author Nopporn Lekuthai author Watcharitpol Sermsrisuwan author Titipat Achakulvisut author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 yoadsanit-etal-2025-lamar 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.12 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.12/ 2025-08 96 103 Neural at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Agentic Prompt Optimization for Evidence-Grounded Clinical Question Answering Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy Bogireddy author Abrar Majeedi author Viswanath Gajjala author Zhuoyan Xu author Siddhant Rai author Vaishnav Potlapalli author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 bogireddy-etal-2025-neural 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.13 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.13/ 2025-08 104 109 UIC at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Tri-Step Pipeline for Reliable Grounded Medical Question Answering Mohammad Arvan author Anuj Gautam author Mohan Zalake author Karl M Kochendorfer author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 arvan-etal-2025-uic 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.14 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.14/ 2025-08 110 117 DMIS Lab at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Evidence-Grounded Answer Generation for EHR-based QA via a Multi-Agent Framework Hyeon Hwang author Hyeongsoon Hwang author Jongmyung Jung author Jaehoon Yun author Minju Song author Yein Park author Dain Kim author Taewhoo Lee author Jiwoong Sohn author Chanwoong Yoon author Sihyeon Park author Jiwoo Lee author Heechul Yang author Jaewoo Kang author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 hwang-etal-2025-dmis 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.15 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.15/ 2025-08 118 125 CogStack-KCL-UCL at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Investigating Hybrid LLM Approaches for Grounded Clinical Question Answering Shubham Agarwal author Thomas Searle author Kawsar Noor author Richard Dobson author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 agarwal-etal-2025-cogstack 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.16 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.16/ 2025-08 126 135 SzegedAI at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Combining LLMs with traditional methods for grounded question answering Soma Nagy author Bálint Nyerges author Zsombor Kispéter author Gábor Tóth author András Szlúka author Gábor Kőrösi author Zsolt Szántó author Richárd Farkas author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 nagy-etal-2025-szegedai 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.17 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.17/ 2025-08 136 149 LIMICS at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Prompting LLMs Beats Fine-Tuned Embeddings Adam Remaki author Armand Violle author Vikram Natraj author Étienne Guével author Akram Redjdal author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 remaki-etal-2025-limics 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.18 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.18/ 2025-08 150 159 razreshili at ArchEHR-QA 2025: Contrastive Fine-Tuning for Retrieval-Augmented Biomedical QA Arina Zemchyk author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 zemchyk-2025-razreshili 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.19 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.19/ 2025-08 160 164 DKITNLP at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Retrieval Augmented LLM Pipeline for Evidence-Based Patient Question Answering Provia Kadusabe author Abhishek Kaushik author Fiona Lawless author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 kadusabe-etal-2025-dkitnlp 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.20 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.20/ 2025-08 165 170 AEHRC at BioLaySumm 2025: Leveraging T5 for Lay Summarisation of Radiology Reports Wenjun Zhang author Shekhar Chandra author Bevan Koopman author Jason Dowling author Aaron Nicolson author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 zhang-etal-2025-aehrc 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.21 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.21/ 2025-08 171 178 MetninOzU at BioLaySumm2025: Text Summarization with Reverse Data Augmentation and Injecting Salient Sentences Egecan Evgin author Ilknur Karadeniz author Olcay Taner Yıldız author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 evgin-etal-2025-metninozu 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.22 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.22/ 2025-08 179 184 Shared Task at Biolaysumm2025 : Extract then summarize approach Augmented with UMLS based Definition Retrieval for Lay Summary generation. Aaradhya Gupta author Parameswari Krishnamurthy author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 gupta-krishnamurthy-2025-shared 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.23 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.23/ 2025-08 185 189 RainCityNLP at BioLaySumm2025: Extract then Summarize at Home Jen Wilson author Michael Pollack author Rachel Edwards author Avery Bellamy author Helen Salgi author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 wilson-etal-2025-raincitynlp 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.24 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.24/ 2025-08 190 195 TLPIQ at BioLaySumm: Hide and Seq, a FLAN-T5 Model for Biomedical Summarization Melody Bechler author Carly Crowther author Emily Luedke author Natasha Schimka author Ibrahim Sharaf author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 bechler-etal-2025-tlpiq 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.25 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.25/ 2025-08 196 201 LaySummX at BioLaySumm: Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning for Biomedical Lay Summarization Using Abstracts and Retrieved Full-Text Context Fan Lin author Dezhi Yu author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 lin-yu-2025-laysummx 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.26 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.26/ 2025-08 202 214 5cNLP at BioLaySumm2025: Prompts, Retrieval, and Multimodal Fusion Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura author Callum Chan author Arshitha Basavaraj author Hugo Alatrista-Salas author Francisco Pereira author Diana Inkpen author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 lossio-ventura-etal-2025-5cnlp 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.27 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.27/ 2025-08 215 231 MIRAGES at BioLaySumm2025: The Impact of Search Terms and Data Curation for Biomedical Lay Summarization Benjamin Pong author Ju-Hui Chen author Jonathan Jiang author Abimael Jimenez author Melody Vahadi author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 pong-etal-2025-mirages 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.28 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.28/ 2025-08 232 239 SUWMIT at BioLaySumm2025: Instruction-based Summarization with Contrastive Decoding Priyam Basu author Jose Cols author Daniel Jarvis author Yongsin Park author Daniel Rodabaugh author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 basu-etal-2025-suwmit 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.29 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.29/ 2025-08 240 248 BDA-UC3M @ BioLaySumm: Efficient Lay Summarization with Small-Scale SoTA LLMs Ilyass Ramzi author Isabel Bedmar author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 ramzi-bedmar-2025-bda 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.30 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.30/ 2025-08 249 255 KHU_LDI at BioLaySumm2025: Fine-tuning and Refinement for Lay Radiology Report Generation Nur Alya Dania Binti Moriazi author Mujeen Sung author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 binti-moriazi-sung-2025-khu 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.31 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.31/ 2025-08 256 268 CUTN_Bio at BioLaySumm: Multi-Task Prompt Tuning with External Knowledge and Readability adaptation for Layman Summarization Bhuvaneswari Sivagnanam author Rivo Krishnu C H author Princi Chauhan author Saranya Rajiakodi author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 sivagnanam-etal-2025-cutn 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.32 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.32/ 2025-08 269 274 Team XSZ at BioLaySumm2025: Section-Wise Summarization, Retrieval-Augmented LLM, and Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning for Lay Summaries Pengcheng Xu author Sicheng Shen author Jieli Zhou author Hongyi Xin author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 xu-etal-2025-team 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.33 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.33/ 2025-08 275 280 VeReaFine: Iterative Verification Reasoning Refinement RAG for Hallucination-Resistant on Open-Ended Clinical QA Pakawat Phasook author Rapepong Pitijaroonpong author Jiramet Kinchagawat author Amrest Chinkamol author Tossaporn Saengja author Kiartnarin Udomlapsakul author Jitkapat Sawatphol author Piyalitt Ittichaiwong author 2025-08 text Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (Shared Tasks) Sarvesh Soni editor Dina Demner-Fushman editor Association for Computational Linguistics Vienna, Austria conference publication 979-8-89176-276-3 phasook-etal-2025-vereafine 10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-share.34 https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-share.34/ 2025-08 281 288