--- title: "Yifan Peng · Cornell University — author profile and papers" description: "Yifan Peng, Cornell University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2019), h-index 46 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yifan Peng # Yifan Peng Yifan Peng has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2019, most of them on [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/); often with [Zhiyong Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyong-lu/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085113833) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9309-8331) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56958506) · [**h-index 46**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085113833) · [304 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085113833) · [11,143 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085113833&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 245 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1886](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/19/#star-1886) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Yifan+Peng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yifan+Peng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yifan+Peng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yifan+Peng) ## Affiliations [🎓**Weill Cornell Medicine** New York · United States 2020–2026 · 203 papersEmployment since 2020*current*](https://ror.org/02r109517) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2021–2026 · 32 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🔬**National Center for Biotechnology Information** Bethesda · United States 2013–2025 · 42 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-center-for-biotechnology-information/) · [🏛️**National Institutes of Health** Bethesda · United States 2016–2025 · 42 papersEmployment 2016–2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-institutes-of-health/) · [🎓**University of Delaware** Newark · United States 2010–2016 · 12 papersEducation 2010–2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-delaware/) · [🔬**United States National Library of Medicine** Bethesda · United States 2018–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/united-states-national-library-of-medicine/) · [🎓**Thomas Jefferson University** Philadelphia · United States 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/00ysqcn41) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2023–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🏥**Weill Cornell Medical Center** New York · United States 2023–2026 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/052v90092) · [🎓**University of Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2013–2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 13 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Molecular Biology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information extraction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2019-transfer-learning-biomedical-natural-language/) · [**2017** 1 paper NegBio: a high-performance tool for negation and uncertainty detection in radiology reports](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2017-negbio-high-performance-tool-negation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2019-transfer-learning-biomedical-natural-language/)** *(2019 · 1,082 citations)* Biomedical language representation models such as BioBERT or clinical BERT were hard to compare, because each study reported results on its own choice of datasets or on differently sized versions of the same ones. 2. **[NegBio: a high-performance tool for negation and uncertainty detection in radiology reports](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2017-negbio-high-performance-tool-negation/)** *(2017 · 153 citations)* Radiology reports often mention findings only to rule them out ("no pneumothorax") or to hedge about them ("suspicious pneumothorax"). ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2019-transfer-learning-biomedical-natural-language/)**Yifan Peng, Shankai Yan, Zhiyong Lu*[BioNLP Shared Task Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp-workshop-and-shared-task/) · 1,082 citations* 2. [**NegBio: a high-performance tool for negation and uncertainty detection in radiology reports**Yifan Peng, Xiaosong Wang, Le Lu, et al.*arXiv:1712.05898 · 153 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2017-negbio-high-performance-tool-negation/) 3. **[Budget-Aware Routing for Long Clinical Text](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2114/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026**Khizar Qureshi, Geoffrey Martin, Yifan Peng*2026* 4. **[Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation without Taxonomy-based Error Categorization](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.14/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…**Gongbo Zhang, Yifan Peng, Chunhua Weng*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zhiyong Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyong-lu/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BioNLP Shared Task Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp-workshop-and-shared-task/): [BioNLP Shared Task Workshop 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp-workshop-and-shared-task/2019/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics… - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 245 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-peng/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026