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Medical concept normalization helps in discovering standard concepts in free-form text i.e., maps health-related mentions to standard concepts in a vocabulary. It is much beyond simple string matching and requires a deep semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Katikapalli Subramanyam Kalyan , S. Sangeetha

Summarizing consumer health questions (CHQs) can ease communication in healthcare, but unfaithful summaries that misrepresent medical details pose serious risks. We propose a framework that combines TextRank-based sentence extraction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ajwad Abrar , Nafisa Tabassum Oeshy , Prianka Maheru , Farzana Tabassum , Tareque Mohmud Chowdhury

Automatic text summarization (ATS) is an emerging technology to assist clinicians in providing continuous and coordinated care. This study presents an approach to summarize doctor-patient dialogues using generative large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Mengxian Lyu , Cheng Peng , Xiaohan Li , Patrick Balian , Jiang Bian , Yonghui Wu

Automatic summarization techniques on meeting conversations developed so far have been primarily extractive, resulting in poor summaries. To improve this, we propose an approach to generate abstractive summaries by fusing important content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-25 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

We present a novel system providing summaries for Computer Science publications. Through a qualitative user study, we identified the most valuable scenarios for discovery, exploration and understanding of scientific documents. Based on…

Generating meaningful assert statements is one of the key challenges in automated test case generation, which requires understanding the intended functionality of the tested code. Recently, deep learning-based models have shown promise in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yuwei Zhang , Zhi Jin , Zejun Wang , Ying Xing , Ge Li

Every day we are surrounded by spoken dialog. This medium delivers rich diverse streams of information auditorily; however, systematically understanding dialog can often be non-trivial. Despite the pervasiveness of spoken dialog, automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Daniel Li , Thomas Chen , Albert Tung , Lydia Chilton

A chest X-ray radiology report describes abnormal findings not only from X-ray obtained at current examination, but also findings on disease progression or change in device placement with reference to the X-ray from previous examination.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zhichuan Wang , Kinhei Lee , Qiao Deng , Tiffany Y. So , Wan Hang Chiu , Yeung Yu Hui , Bingjing Zhou , Edward S. Hui

Nursing notes, an important part of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), track a patient's health during a care episode. Summarizing key information in nursing notes can help clinicians quickly understand patients' conditions. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ya Gao , Hans Moen , Saila Koivusalo , Miika Koskinen , Pekka Marttinen

Summarization of multi-party dialogues is a critical capability in industry, enhancing knowledge transfer and operational effectiveness across many domains. However, automatically generating high-quality summaries is challenging, as the…

When summarizing a collection of views, arguments or opinions on some topic, it is often desirable not only to extract the most salient points, but also to quantify their prevalence. Work on multi-document summarization has traditionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Roy Bar-Haim , Yoav Kantor , Lilach Eden , Roni Friedman , Dan Lahav , Noam Slonim

Neural conversation models tend to generate safe, generic responses for most inputs. This is due to the limitations of likelihood-based decoding objectives in generation tasks with diverse outputs, such as conversation. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Jiwei Li , Bill Dolan

The automatic summarization of surgical videos is essential for enhancing procedural documentation, supporting surgical training, and facilitating post-operative analysis. This paper presents a novel method at the intersection of artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hugo Georgenthum , Cristian Cosentino , Fabrizio Marozzo , Pietro Liò

Dialogue summarization task involves summarizing long conversations while preserving the most salient information. Real-life dialogues often involve naturally occurring variations (e.g., repetitions, hesitations) and existing dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Ankita Gupta , Chulaka Gunasekara , Hui Wan , Jatin Ganhotra , Sachindra Joshi , Marina Danilevsky

Extractive summarization aims at selecting a set of indicative sentences from a source document as a summary that can express the major theme of the document. A general consensus on extractive summarization is that both relevance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Kuan-Yu Chen , Shih-Hung Liu , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang

Text summarization is the process of extracting the most important information from the text and presenting it concisely in fewer sentences. Call transcript is a text that involves textual description of a phone conversation between a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Pratik K. Biswas , Aleksandr Iakubovich

Medical conversations offer insights into clinical communication often absent from Electronic Health Records. However, developing reliable clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) models is hampered by the scarcity of domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Cecilia Kuan , Aditya Kamlesh Parikh , Henk van den Heuvel

Quickly moving to a new area of research is painful for researchers due to the vast amount of scientific literature in each field of study. One possible way to overcome this problem is to summarize a scientific topic. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-07-11 Vahed Qazvinian , Dragomir R. Radev

Recently, Transformer-based models have been proven effective in the abstractive summarization task by creating fluent and informative summaries. Nevertheless, these models still suffer from the short-range dependency problem, causing them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu , Truc Lu , Tho Quan

Clinical summarization is crucial in healthcare as it distills complex medical data into digestible information, enhancing patient understanding and care management. Large language models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Anindya Bijoy Das , Shibbir Ahmed , Shahnewaz Karim Sakib