IMIA Best Paper Award

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Our 2023 paper On the effectiveness of compact biomedical transformers was selected as one of two Best Papers in NLP worldwide by IMIA’s Yearbook of Medical Informatics.
Author

Omid Rohanian

Published

June 1, 2025

Excerpt from IMIA Yearbook 2024 showing our paper

Our 2023 paper on biomedical NLP has been recently chosen as one of only two Best Papers in NLP worldwide by the Yearbook of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA 2024). This award appears in IMIA’s Yearbook (2024 Edition), which compiles the most influential contributions to global medical informatics. In a field that’s always on the move, this recognition shows the lasting resonance of our work.

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The original paper: On the effectiveness of compact biomedical transformers