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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…

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Understanding medical texts presents significant challenges due to complex terminology and context-specific language. This paper introduces Medalyze, an AI-powered application designed to enhance the comprehension of medical texts using…

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Conventional dialogue summarization methods directly generate summaries and do not consider user's specific interests. This poses challenges in cases where the users are more focused on particular topics or aspects. With the advancement of…

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Biomedical summarization requires large datasets to train for text generation. We show that while transfer learning offers a viable option for addressing this challenge, an in-domain pre-training does not always offer advantages in a BioASQ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dima Galat , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Conversations between a clinician and a patient, in natural conditions, are valuable sources of information for medical follow-up. The automatic analysis of these dialogues could help extract new language markers and speed-up the…

Abstractive conversation summarization has received much attention recently. However, these generated summaries often suffer from insufficient, redundant, or incorrect content, largely due to the unstructured and complex characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiaao Chen , Diyi Yang

Dialogue summarization is abstractive in nature, making it suffer from factual errors. The factual correctness of summaries has the highest priority before practical applications. Many efforts have been made to improve faithfulness in text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Bin Wang , Chen Zhang , Yan Zhang , Yiming Chen , Haizhou Li

In this paper, we investigate the problem of including relevant information as context in open-domain dialogue systems. Most models struggle to identify and incorporate important knowledge from dialogues and simply use the entire turns as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Rui Ribeiro , Luísa Coheur

Multi-document summarization entails producing concise synopses of collections of inputs. For some applications, the synopsis should accurately synthesize inputs with respect to a key aspect, e.g., a synopsis of film reviews written about a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jay DeYoung , Stephanie C. Martinez , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

Text summarization is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), and the information explosion has made long-document processing increasingly demanding, making summarization essential. Existing research mainly focuses on model…

Over the past few years, the use of the Internet for healthcare-related tasks has grown by leaps and bounds, posing a challenge in effectively managing and processing information to ensure its efficient utilization. During moments of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Abhisek Tiwari , Shreyangshu Bera , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Samrat Ghosh

Summarizing patient clinical notes is vital for reducing documentation burdens. Current manual summarization makes medical staff struggle. We propose an automatic method using LLMs, but long inputs cause LLMs to lose context, reducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Guoqing Zhang , Keita Fukuyama , Kazumasa Kishimoto , Tomohiro Kuroda

Medical dialogue systems (MDS) aim to provide patients with medical services, such as diagnosis and prescription. Since most patients cannot precisely describe their symptoms, dialogue understanding is challenging for MDS. Previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kaishuai Xu , Wenjun Hou , Yi Cheng , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li

Contextualized word embeddings can lead to state-of-the-art performances in natural language understanding. Recently, a pre-trained deep contextualized text encoder such as BERT has shown its potential in improving natural language tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Hyunjae Lee , Jaewoong Yun , Hyunjin Choi , Seongho Joe , Youngjune L. Gwon

Automatic text summarization methods generate a shorter version of the input text to assist the reader in gaining a quick yet informative gist. Existing text summarization methods generally focus on a single aspect of text when selecting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ensieh Davoodijam , Nasser Ghadiri , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza , Fabio Rinaldi

Abstractive dialogue summarization is the task of distilling conversations into informative and concise summaries. Although reviews have been conducted on this topic, there is a lack of comprehensive work detailing the challenges of…

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There exists an invisible barrier between healthcare professionals' perception of a patient's clinical experience and the reality. This barrier may be induced by the environment that hinders patients from sharing their experiences openly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Giorgos Lysandrou , Roma English Owen , Vanja Popovic , Grant Le Brun , Aryo Pradipta Gema , Beatrice Alex , Elizabeth A. L. Fairley

Traditional approaches to extractive summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this work we propose a data-driven approach based on neural networks and continuous sentence features. We develop a general framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Jianpeng Cheng , Mirella Lapata

Summaries of meetings are very important as they convey the essential content of discussions in a concise form. Generally, it is time consuming to read and understand the whole documents. Therefore, summaries play an important role as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

Meetings play a critical infrastructural role in coordinating work. The recent surge of hybrid and remote meetings in computer-mediated spaces has led to new problems (e.g., more time spent in less engaging meetings) and new opportunities…

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