karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

Executive Dean @RMITComputing; AI in medicine #AAAiH; text mining, bioinformatics, #DigitalHealth #NLProc #techdiversity #TeamHB3 pronouns: she/her aihealthalliance.org Melbourne, Australia Joined October 2008

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

8 months ago

@fake_journals My approach: look at who cited papers. Start with a recently published paper with a high citation count. Take this 2025 paper with 13 citations. Look at "Cited by". Almost entirely author self-citations or highly nonspecific citations. A self-reinforcing citation network?

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

8 months ago

@Duke07696804 @fake_journals This is already happening!

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

a year ago

@TobyWalsh You and me both!

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Isaac Kohane @zakkohane

a year ago

The incidentalome continues to grow and cost $$$$ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken

a year ago

You see this kind of thing is why I will never run out of content

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

a year ago

@JulioGonzalo1 @sansalido @guillermomarco_ Here also we created a targeted test suite for negation. Controlled variation of examples gives insight into capabilities that a large benchmark cannot. aclanthology.org/2022.aacl-main…

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

a year ago

@JulioGonzalo1 We had very consistent results when introducing negation! aclanthology.org/2023.starsem-1…

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@RMITComputing undergraduate student Milindi Kodikara presenting a paper based on her Honours project with me. She also graduated with First Class Honours for her Honours year. Well done, Milindi!

Australasian Language Technology Association @altanlp

2 years ago

Milindi Kodikara from @RMIT is presenting the long paper today at #ALTA2024 titled "Lesser the Shots, Higher the #Hallucinations: Exploration of Genetic Information Extraction using Generative Large Language Models", evaluating #LLMs on extraction of genetic information. #NLP

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@lpachter Do you have a sense of whether this was a true “innovation” or just a better information retrieval strategy? ie was it known just not to you?

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@AvpElk It’s precisely because of how they are trained, and follows from reinforcing the statistical patterns in the data.

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@aadi_joshi @AU_NSWPF That’s horrible. I’m sure it was frightening. I’m relieved that he stopped at verbal abuse.

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@elizlaraki WTF indeed. Unintended consequences of AI automation …

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@innovator_lc @ipfconline1 @ConversationEDU @jblefevre60 @Khulood_Almani @ahier I completely agree! That is the sweet spot, and where my own research has focused. We made the same argument for clinical AI/NLP a few years ago. Support information needs, don’t replace critical thinking. doi.org/10.1093/jamia/…

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@DrShaneRRR “scarred” not “scared”! Well maybe scared too but seriously they were just … disturbing. At least as I recall.

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

As I said at #WCRI2024 @WCRIFoundation and last week at @ANU_CPAS, #GenAI will enable bad actors in science to accelerate their contamination of scientific literature. This has broad repercussions for trust in science, and there is a significant human toll, as reflected here.

Calli McMurray @callimcflurry

2 years ago

Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it? My first feature for @_TheTransmitter investigates the emotional and existential fallout for one lab in the aftermath of a misconduct case. thetransmitter.org/science-and-so…

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@OlegZendel I’m confused why a LLM is needed for this use case?

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karin verspoor (professor) @karinv

2 years ago

@ARC_Tracker This is particularly troubling as AFAIK the sector has grown substantially in that time! This does not bode well for academic career progression.