A comparative analysis of large language models versus traditional information extraction methods for real-world evidence of patient symptomatology in acute and post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2

• Vedansh Thakkar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vedansh Thakkar, Greg M. Silverman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vthakkar@umn.edu

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3551-5229

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• Greg M. Silverman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vedansh Thakkar, Greg M. Silverman

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Abhinab Kc,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Nicholas E. Ingraham,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Learning Health Systems Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-0594

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• Emma K. Jones,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Samantha King,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Genevieve B. Melton,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Learning Health Systems Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Rui Zhang,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Learning Health Systems Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Christopher J. Tignanelli

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Learning Health Systems Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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