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Information extraction from conversational data is particularly challenging because the task-centric nature of conversation allows for effective communication of implicit information by humans, but is challenging for machines. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Sopan Khosla , Shikhar Vashishth , Jill Fain Lehman , Carolyn Rose

Medical consultation dialogues contain critical clinical information, yet their unstructured nature hinders effective utilization in diagnosis and treatment. Traditional methods, relying on rule-based or shallow machine learning techniques,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Shuguang Zhao , Qiangzhong Feng , Zhiyang He , Peipei Sun , Yingying Wang , Xiaodong Tao , Xiaoliang Lu , Mei Cheng , Xinyue Wu , Yanyan Wang , Wei Liang

Summarizing medical conversations poses unique challenges due to the specialized domain and the difficulty of collecting in-domain training data. In this study, we investigate the performance of state-of-the-art doctor-patient conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yu-Wen Chen , Julia Hirschberg

Understanding a medical conversation between a patient and a physician poses a unique natural language understanding challenge since it combines elements of standard open ended conversation with very domain specific elements that require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Anirudh Joshi , Namit Katariya , Xavier Amatriain , Anitha Kannan

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provide vital contextual information to radiologists and other physicians when making a diagnosis. Unfortunately, because a given patient's record may contain hundreds of notes and reports, identifying…

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has opened new avenues for analyzing complex, unstructured data, particularly within the medical domain. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a wealth of information in various formats,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wu Hao Ran , Xi Xi , Furong Li , Jingyi Lu , Jian Jiang , Hui Huang , Yuzhuan Zhang , Shi Li

Clinical information extraction, which involves structuring clinical concepts from unstructured medical text, remains a challenging problem that could benefit from the inclusion of tabular background information available in electronic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Paloma Rabaey , Stefan Heytens , Thomas Demeester

Dialogue-based relation extraction (DiaRE) aims to detect the structural information from unstructured utterances in dialogues. Existing relation extraction models may be unsatisfactory under such a conversational setting, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Guoshun Nan , Guoqing Luo , Sicong Leng , Yao Xiao , Wei Lu

The records of a clinical encounter can be extensive and complex, thus placing a premium on tools that can extract and summarize relevant information. This paper introduces the task of generating discharge summaries for a clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Han-Chin Shing , Chaitanya Shivade , Nima Pourdamghani , Feng Nan , Philip Resnik , Douglas Oard , Parminder Bhatia

Following each patient visit, physicians draft long semi-structured clinical summaries called SOAP notes. While invaluable to clinicians and researchers, creating digital SOAP notes is burdensome, contributing to physician burnout. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Kundan Krishna , Sopan Khosla , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton

In this work we explored building automatic speech recognition models for transcribing doctor patient conversation. We collected a large scale dataset of clinical conversations ($14,000$ hr), designed the task to represent the real word…

In this paper, we describe novel components for extracting clinically relevant information from medical conversations which will be available as Google APIs. We describe a transformer-based Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T) model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hagen Soltau , Mingqiu Wang , Izhak Shafran , Laurent El Shafey

Manual chart review remains an extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive component of clinical research, requiring experts to extract often complex information from unstructured electronic health record (EHR) narratives. We present a…

Extracting relevant information from medical conversations and providing it to doctors and patients might help in addressing doctor burnout and patient forgetfulness. In this paper, we focus on extracting the Medication Regimen (dosage and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Sai P. Selvaraj , Sandeep Konam

The extraction of relevant data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is crucial to identifying symptoms and automating epidemiological surveillance processes. By harnessing the vast amount of unstructured text in EHRs, we can detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Juliano Genari , Guilherme Tegoni Goedert

Summaries generated from medical conversations can improve recall and understanding of care plans for patients and reduce documentation burden for doctors. Recent advancements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Benjamin Schloss , Sandeep Konam

A medical provider's summary of a patient visit serves several critical purposes, including clinical decision-making, facilitating hand-offs between providers, and as a reference for the patient. An effective summary is required to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Varun Nair , Elliot Schumacher , Anitha Kannan

This paper describes novel models tailored for a new application, that of extracting the symptoms mentioned in clinical conversations along with their status. Lack of any publicly available corpus in this privacy-sensitive domain led us to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Nan Du , Kai Chen , Anjuli Kannan , Linh Tran , Yuhui Chen , Izhak Shafran

Long-context audio reasoning is underserved in both training data and evaluation. Existing benchmarks target short-context tasks, and the open-ended generation tasks most relevant to long-context reasoning pose well-known challenges for…

This study applies Large Language Models (LLMs) to two foundational Electronic Health Record (EHR) data science tasks: structured data querying (using programmatic languages, Python/Pandas) and information extraction from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Juan Jose Rubio Jan , Jack Wu , Julia Ive
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