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Continuity of care is crucial to ensuring positive health outcomes for patients discharged from an inpatient hospital setting, and improved information sharing can help. To share information, caregivers write discharge notes containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 James Mullenbach , Yada Pruksachatkun , Sean Adler , Jennifer Seale , Jordan Swartz , T. Greg McKelvey , Hui Dai , Yi Yang , David Sontag

Data-driven approaches to sequence-to-sequence modelling have been successfully applied to short text summarization of news articles. Such models are typically trained on input-summary pairs consisting of only a single or a few sentences,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Nikola I. Nikolov , Michael Pfeiffer , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Different from general documents, it is recognised that the ease with which people can understand a biomedical text is eminently varied, owing to the highly technical nature of biomedical documents and the variance of readers' domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zheheng Luo , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Causal discovery can be a powerful tool for investigating causality when a system can be observed but is inaccessible to experiments in practice. Despite this, it is rarely used in any scientific or medical fields. One of the major hurdles…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-07 Erich Kummerfeld , Alexander Rix

Lack of factual correctness is an issue that still plagues state-of-the-art summarization systems despite their impressive progress on generating seemingly fluent summaries. In this paper, we show that factual inconsistency can be caused by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Asish Ghoshal , Arash Einolghozati , Ankit Arun , Haoran Li , Lili Yu , Vera Gor , Yashar Mehdad , Scott Wen-tau Yih , Asli Celikyilmaz

Accessing medical literature is difficult for laypeople as the content is written for specialists and contains medical jargon. Automated text simplification methods offer a potential means to address this issue. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Junru Lu , Jiazheng Li , Byron C. Wallace , Yulan He , Gabriele Pergola

Unlike extractive summarization, abstractive summarization has to fuse different parts of the source text, which inclines to create fake facts. Our preliminary study reveals nearly 30% of the outputs from a state-of-the-art neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Ziqiang Cao , Furu Wei , Wenjie Li , Sujian Li

Recent developments in natural language generation have tremendous implications for healthcare. For instance, state-of-the-art systems could automate the generation of sections in clinical reports to alleviate physician workload and…

Deploying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for clinical summarization demands not only fluent generation but also transparency about where each statement originates-and a mechanism to flag when statements lack evidential support. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qianqi Yan , Huy Nguyen , Sumana Srivatsa , Hari Bandi , Xin Eric Wang , Krishnaram Kenthapadi

With a neural sequence generation model, this study aims to develop a method of writing the patient clinical texts given a brief medical history. As a proof-of-a-concept, we have demonstrated that it can be workable to use medical concept…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Wangjin Lee , Hyeryun Park , Jooyoung Yoon , Kyeongmo Kim , Jinwook Choi

The findings section of a radiology report is often detailed and lengthy, whereas the impression section is comparatively more compact and captures key diagnostic conclusions. This research explores the use of advanced abstractive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Anindita Bhattacharya , Tohida Rehman , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

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

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summarization remains loosely defined. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Fabian Retkowski , Maike Züfle , Andreas Sudmann , Dinah Pfau , Shinji Watanabe , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

We propose a new approach to generate multiple variants of the target summary with diverse content and varying lengths, then score and select admissible ones according to users' needs. Abstractive summarizers trained on single reference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kaiqiang Song , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng , Fei Liu

Can language models read biomedical texts and explain the biomedical mechanisms discussed? In this work we introduce a biomedical mechanism summarization task. Biomedical studies often investigate the mechanisms behind how one entity (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Mohaddeseh Bastan , Nishant Shankar , Mihai Surdeanu , Niranjan Balasubramanian

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

Researchers and scientists increasingly find themselves in the position of having to quickly understand large amounts of technical material. Our goal is to effectively serve this need by using bibliometric text mining and summarization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Vahed Qazvinian , Dragomir R. Radev , Saif M. Mohammad , Bonnie Dorr , David Zajic , Michael Whidby , Taesun Moon

Extracting fine-grained experimental findings from literature can provide dramatic utility for scientific applications. Prior work has developed annotation schemas and datasets for limited aspects of this problem, failing to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Aakanksha Naik , Bailey Kuehl , Erin Bransom , Doug Downey , Tom Hope

Prior work in document summarization has mainly focused on generating short summaries of a document. While this type of summary helps get a high-level view of a given document, it is desirable in some cases to know more detailed information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sajad Sotudeh , Arman Cohan , Nazli Goharian

Detecting factual inconsistency for long document summarization remains challenging, given the complex structure of the source article and long summary length. In this work, we study factual inconsistency errors and connect them with a line…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yang Zhong , Diane Litman