Rezarta Islamaj
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Rezarta Islamaj

Google Scholar ID: WWpGXYEAAAAJ
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Natural language processingtext miningmachine learningdata mining
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Emailislamaj@ncbi.nlm.nih.govCVOpen ↗
Publications
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What Do Biomedical NER and Entity Linking Benchmarks Measure? A Corpus-Centric Diagnostic Framework
2026
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MedHopQA: A Disease-Centered Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based Biomedical Question Answering
2026
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Overview of the MedHopQA track at BioCreative IX: track description, participation and evaluation of systems for multi-hop medical question answering
2026
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Condition-Gated Reasoning for Context-Dependent Biomedical Question Answering
2026
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Repurposing Annotation Guidelines to Instruct LLM Annotators: A Case Study
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Published numerous papers, including 'NCBI Disease Corpus: A Resource for Disease Name Recognition and Concept Normalization' (with Robert Leaman and Zhiyong Lu), 'Author name disambiguation for PubMed' (with Wanli Liu et al.), and more.
Research Experience
  • Currently a Staff Scientist at NCBI, NLM, NIH. Involved in multiple research projects such as DNorm: Disease name normalization study, NCBI Disease Corpus, Medical Concepts Relations Study, etc.
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park, USA, 2007.
Background
  • Research interests include construction of linguistic resources to support biological text mining, building tools that facilitate information retrieval and knowledge extraction from biomedical literature, and machine learning, data mining, feature generation.