How to extract reporter status (is HCP and is contactable) from VAERS using Google Gemini

This task is to find out of the person who filed the VAERS report (the reporter) was a healthcare professional. For example in the report below, the answer should be “Yes” since it was filed by a physician. Feeling cold; Chills and shivering; high sweating; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable physician, received…

Extracting most recent vaccination date from VAERS using Google Gemini

This task involves extracting the date of the most recent vaccination from a VAERS report Feeling cold; Chills and shivering; high sweating; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable physician, received from the Regulatory Authority, regulatory authority report number of v20100815 and v20100816, and also received information via System. A 47-year-old female received first…

Extracting COVID19 infection status from VAERS using Google Gemini

In this task, we want to know if the patient ever had a documented COVID19 infection Feeling cold; Chills and shivering; high sweating; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable physician, received from the Regulatory Authority, regulatory authority report number of v20100815 and v20100816, and also received information via System. A 47-year-old female received…

How to extract AGE from VAERS report using Google Gemini

We are interested in extracting the AGE information from a VAERS writeup. This must be an integer. Since there isn’t anything ambiguous about the age, we expect that this will be an easy task for the current generation of LLMs. Feeling cold; Chills and shivering; high sweating; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable…

How to extract ONSET_DATE from VAERS write-ups using Google Gemini

The field called ONSET_DATE describes the date of onset for the earliest symptom (after vaccination). Here is an example Feeling cold; Chills and shivering; high sweating; This is a spontaneous report from a contactable physician, received from the Regulatory Authority, regulatory authority report number of v20100815 and v20100816, and also received information via System. A…

10 Tips to increase the accuracy of LLM Structured Outputs

Here are some tips you can use to improve the accuracy of structured outputs from LLM. Note: you can use the Python instructor library to get structured outputs from nearly any Large Language Model. Use a more descriptive field name You can improve the accuracy of structured information extraction by providing a more descriptive field…

Is Dialogflow still relevant in the era of Large Language Models?

Last updated: 17 Jan 2025 Till early 2023, Dialogflow was probably the best framework for developing chatbots. Consider these three major changes after the wide adoption of Large Language Models like ChatGPT: 1 Chatbots are now being integrated with search – that is, they do not make a lot of sense as standalone apps. Google…