publications

2025

1. 

   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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2. 

   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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3. 

   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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4. 

   Towards Knowledge-Guided Biomedical Lay Summarization using Large Language Models

   Shufan Ming, Yue Guo, and Halil Kilicoglu

   In CL4Health, 2025

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5. 

   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

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2024

1. 

   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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2. 

   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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3. 

   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

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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

1. 

   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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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