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Asma Ben Abacha

Asma Ben Abacha has 3 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, most of them on Question answering, Evaluation & benchmarks; often with Dina Demner-Fushman, Chaitanya Shivade, Fei Xia.

3 papers in our library · 2019–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 27 · 135 works · 2,842 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 145 citations in our library · 5 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4102

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 Affiliations

🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States2022–2026 · 35 papersEmployment · Senior Scientistcurrent🔬United States National Library of MedicineBethesda · United States2016–2022 · 23 papers🏛️National Institutes of HealthBethesda · United States2014–2021 · 20 papers🔬Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'IngénieurOrsay · France2010–2012 · 9 papers🔬Luxembourg Institute of Science and TechnologyBelvaux · Luxembourg2015–2016 · 6 papers🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France2011–2012 · 5 papers🎓Université Paris-SudOrsay · France2011–2012 · 3 papersEducation🤝Centre de recherche public Henri-TudorLuxembourg-Kirchberg · Luxembourg2013 · 2 papers🎓Université Sorbonne Paris NordVilletaneuse · FranceEducation

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 10 Arts and Humanities · 3 works Computer Science · 3 works Artificial Intelligence · 3 works Language and Linguistics · 3 works Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work Molecular Biology · 1 work Social Sciences · 1 work Information Systems · 1 work Sociology and Political Science · 1 work Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2 Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works Question answering · 2 works

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20211 paper

2010s

20191 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering (2019 · 179 citations)
    Textual inference and question entailment have had relatively little attention in medicine, even though both could help health question-answering systems choose better answers.
  2. Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related Claims (2021 · 129 citations)
    Most evidence-based fact-checking resources rely on artificially constructed claims, such as edited Wikipedia sentences or rewritten citation sentences.
  3. MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering (2026 · 11 citations)
    Automatic scores like BLEU, ROUGE and BERTScore are poor judges of free-text medical answers. Many different answers can be equally correct, and a reply that shares wording with the reference can still be clinically wrong. The authors present MORQA (Medical Open-Response QA), a bilingual English–Chinese benchmark for…

All works

8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question AnsweringAsma Ben Abacha, Chaitanya Shivade, Dina Demner-FushmanBioNLP Shared Task Workshop · 179 citations
  2. Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related ClaimsMourad Sarrouti, Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, et al.Findings of the Association for Computational… · 129 citations
  3. MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question AnsweringWen-wai Yim, Asma Ben Abacha, Zixuan Yu, et al.Language Resources and Evaluation Conference… · 11 citations
  4. Overview of the MEDIQA-SYNUR 2026 Shared Task on Observation Extraction from Nurse Dictations (original ↗)George Michalopoulos et al.2026 · Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical… · 9 citations · no summary yet
  5. Response Content Units: Evaluating Completeness and Proactiveness in Medical Open-Response Question Answering (original ↗)Yongsin Park et al.2026 · Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on… · no summary yet
  6. Extraction d'information automatique en domaine médical par projection inter-langue : vers un passage à l'échelle (Automatic Information Extraction in the Medical Domain by Cross-Lingual Projection) [in French] (original ↗)Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Aurélien Max2012 · Proceedings of the Joint Conference… · no summary yet
  7. Extraction d'informations médicales au LIMSI (Medical information extraction at LIMSI) (original ↗)Cyril Grouin et al.2011 · Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement… · no summary yet
  8. MeTAE : Plate-forme d'annotation automatique et d'exploration sémantiques pour le domaine médical (original ↗)Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum2010 · Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement… · no summary yet

 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 145 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 5 citing papers with a page here →.

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