publications

2025

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    Are LLM-generated plain language summaries truly understandable? A large-scale crowdsourced evaluation
    Yue Guo, Jae Ho Sohn, Gondy Leroy, and Trevor Cohen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10409, 2025
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    Explain Less, Understand More: Jargon Detection via Personalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning
    Bohao Wu, Qingyun Wang, and Yue Guo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16227, 2025
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    PlainQAFact: Automatic Factuality Evaluation Metric for Biomedical Plain Language Summaries Generation
    Zhiwen You, and Yue Guo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08890, 2025
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    Towards Knowledge-Guided Biomedical Lay Summarization using Large Language Models
    Shufan Ming, Yue Guo, and Halil Kilicoglu
    In CL4Health, 2025
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    Coherence and comprehensibility: Large language models predict lay understanding of health-related content
    Trevor Cohen, Weizhe Xu, Yue Guo, Serguei Pakhomov, and Gondy Leroy
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2025

2024

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    Personalized jargon identification for enhanced interdisciplinary communication
    Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, Erin Bransom, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang, and Tal August
    In NAACL, 2024
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    APPLS: A meta-evaluation testbed for plain language summarization
    Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, and Lucy Lu Wang
    EMNLP, 2024
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    Retrieval augmentation of large language models for lay language generation
    Yue Guo, Wei Qiu, Gondy Leroy, Sheng Wang, and Trevor Cohen
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2024

2022

  1. Mixed-methods evaluation of three natural language processing modeling approaches for measuring documented goals-of-care discussions in the electronic health record
    Alison M Uyeda, J Randall Curtis, Ruth A Engelberg, Lyndia C Brumback, Yue Guo, James Sibley, William B Lober, Trevor Cohen, Janaki Torrence, Joanna Heywood, and  others
    Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2022

2021

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    Automated lay language summarization of biomedical scientific reviews
    Yue Guo, Wei Qiu, Yizhong Wang, and Trevor Cohen
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
  2. Crossing the “Cookie Theft” corpus chasm: applying what BERT learns from outside data to the ADReSS challenge dementia detection task
    Yue Guo, Changye Li, Carol Roan, Serguei Pakhomov, and Trevor Cohen
    Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021

2020

  1. Spatial radiation dose influence on xerostomia recovery and its comparison to acute incidence in patients with head and neck cancer
    Yue Guo, Wei Jiang, Pranav Lakshminarayanan, Peijin Han, Zhi Cheng, Michael Bowers, Xuan Hui, Ilya Shpitser, Sauleh Siddiqui, Russell H Taylor, and  others
    Advances in radiation oncology, 2020
  2. The performance of immunocytochemistry staining as triaging tests for high-risk HPV-positive women: a 24-month prospective study
    Yu-Cong Li, Yu-Qian Zhao, Ting-Yuan Li, Wen Chen, Guang-Dong Liao, Hai-Rui Wang, Hai-Ke Lei, Yue Guo, Qi Zhou, and  others
    Journal of Oncology, 2020

2019

  1. Dose/volume histogram patterns in salivary gland subvolumes influence xerostomia injury and recovery
    Peijin Han, Pranav Lakshminarayanan, Wei Jiang, Ilya Shpitser, Xuan Hui, Sang Ho Lee, Zhi Cheng, Yue Guo, Russell H Taylor, Sauleh A Siddiqui, and  others
    Scientific reports, 2019
  2. Voxel dose pattern for patient-reported dysphagia among head and neck cancer patients receiving definitive radiotherapy
    Z Cheng, K Sheikh, P Lakshminarayanan, W Jiang, P Han, Y Guo, E Cecil, L Sloan, AP Kiess, BR Page, and  others
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2019
  3. Low peripheral blood leukocyte counts during radiation therapy for head and neck cancer predict distant relapse and dysphagia
    C Gui, Z Cheng, E Cecil, L Sloan, MP Deek, P Lakshminarayanan, Y Guo, P Han, TR McNutt, and H Quon
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2019
  4. Evaluation of Patient vs. Provider Based Assessments of Xerostomia and Dysphagia Compared Against Weight Loss in the Irradiated Head and Neck Cancer Patient
    Y Guo, Z Cheng, E Cecil, P Lakshminarayanan, Y Lu, P Han, AP Kiess, TR McNutt, and H Quon
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2019
  5. Definitive Management of Early Stage Oropharyngeal Carcinoma: A Comparison of Long Term Outcomes Following Transoral Surgery or Definitive Chemoradiation
    MP Deek, E Cecil, L Sloan, Z Cheng, P Han, K Sheikh, C Gui, Y Guo, P Lakshminarayanan, C Fakhry, and  others
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2019
  6. A Feasibility Study of Xerostomia Outcome-Based Treatment Planning to Improve the Probability of Xerostomia Recovery in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
    Y Guo, P Lakshminarayanan, P Han, K Sheikh, Z Cheng, W Jiang, S Siddiqui, I Shpitser, R Taylor, H Quon, and  others
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2019
  7. An Outcome-Based Treatment Planning Strategy to Improve Xerostomia Symptom in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
    Y Guo, P Lakshminarayanan, P Han, K Sheikh, Z Cheng, S Siddiqui, I Shpitser, R Taylor, H Quon, and T McNutt
    In MEDICAL PHYSICS, 2019

2018

  1. Quality of life differences in male and female patients with head and neck cancer
    BR Page, Y Guo, P Han, Z Cheng, J Harkness, C Shen, A Choflet, C Hu, E Cecil, NC Schmitt, and  others
    International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2018
  2. Head and Neck Salivary Gland Spatial Dose-Volume histogram (DVH) Patterns Predict Radiation-Induced Xerostomia, From Injury to Recovery
    P Han, P Lakshminarayanan, W Liang, I Shpitser, X Hui, S Lee, Z Cheng, Y Guo, R Taylor, S Siddiqui, and  others
    In MEDICAL PHYSICS, 2018