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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

Abstracts derived from biomedical literature possess distinct domain-specific characteristics, including specialised writing styles and biomedical terminologies, which necessitate a deep understanding of the related literature. As a result,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Chen Tang , Shun Wang , Tomas Goldsack , Chenghua Lin

With the rapid increase in the volume of dialogue data from daily life, there is a growing demand for dialogue summarization. Unfortunately, training a large summarization model is generally infeasible due to the inadequacy of dialogue data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yicheng Zou , Bolin Zhu , Xingwu Hu , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang

In a customer service system, dialogue summarization can boost service efficiency by automatically creating summaries for long spoken dialogues in which customers and agents try to address issues about specific topics. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yicheng Zou , Lujun Zhao , Yangyang Kang , Jun Lin , Minlong Peng , Zhuoren Jiang , Changlong Sun , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Xiaozhong Liu

Medical dialogue generation aims to generate responses according to a history of dialogue turns between doctors and patients. Unlike open-domain dialogue generation, this requires background knowledge specific to the medical domain.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chen Tang , Hongbo Zhang , Tyler Loakman , Chenghua Lin , Frank Guerin

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload. Recently, the promising achievements in both dialogue systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Large language models, particularly GPT-3, are able to produce high quality summaries of general domain news articles in few- and zero-shot settings. However, it is unclear if such models are similarly capable in more specialized,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Chantal Shaib , Millicent L. Li , Sebastian Joseph , Iain J. Marshall , Junyi Jessy Li , Byron C. Wallace

Objective: The aim of this paper is to survey the recent work in medical documents summarization. Background: During the last decade, documents summarization got increasing attention by the AI research community. More recently it also…

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Analyzing vast textual data and summarizing key information from electronic health records imposes a substantial burden on how clinicians allocate their time. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in natural language…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in safety-critical applications such as healthcare, yet the ability to quantify performance has lagged. An example of this challenge is in evaluating a summary of the patient's medical record.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Elliot Schumacher , Daniel Rosenthal , Dhruv Naik , Varun Nair , Luladay Price , Geoffrey Tso , Anitha Kannan

Abstractive dialogue summarization is to generate a concise and fluent summary covering the salient information in a dialogue among two or more interlocutors. It has attracted great attention in recent years based on the massive emergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qi Jia , Yizhu Liu , Siyu Ren , Kenny Q. Zhu

Dialogue summarization is a challenging problem due to the informal and unstructured nature of conversational data. Recent advances in abstractive summarization have been focused on data-hungry neural models and adapting these models to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Prakhar Ganesh , Saket Dingliwal

In an ever-expanding world of domain-specific knowledge, the increasing complexity of consuming, and storing information necessitates the generation of summaries from large information repositories. However, every persona of a domain has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ankan Mullick , Sombit Bose , Rounak Saha , Ayan Kumar Bhowmick , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly , Prasenjit Dey , Ravi Kokku

Due to the lack of publicly available resources, conversation summarization has received far less attention than text summarization. As the purpose of conversations is to exchange information between at least two interlocutors, key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Zhengyuan Liu , Angela Ng , Sheldon Lee , Ai Ti Aw , Nancy F. Chen

In this work, we present a novel technique to improve the quality of draft clinical notes for physicians. This technique is concentrated on the ability to model implicit physician conversation styles and note preferences. We also introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Nathan Brake , Thomas Schaaf

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

Tabular data provide answers to a significant portion of search queries. However, reciting an entire result table is impractical in conversational search systems. We propose to generate natural language summaries as answers to describe the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Shuo Zhang , Zhuyun Dai , Krisztian Balog , Jamie Callan

Medical progress notes play a crucial role in documenting a patient's hospital journey, including his or her condition, treatment plan, and any updates for healthcare providers. Automatic summarisation of a patient's problems in the form of…

Despite recent improvements in open-domain dialogue models, state of the art models are trained and evaluated on short conversations with little context. In contrast, the long-term conversation setting has hardly been studied. In this work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Jing Xu , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston

Summaries of medical text shall be faithful by being consistent and factual with source inputs, which is an important but understudied topic for safety and efficiency in healthcare. In this paper, we investigate and improve faithfulness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nan Zhang , Yusen Zhang , Wu Guo , Prasenjit Mitra , Rui Zhang