Towards Automating Medical Scribing : Clinic Visit Dialogue2Note Sentence Alignment and Snippet Summarization

Wen-wai Yim, Meliha Yetisgen


Abstract
Medical conversations from patient visits are routinely summarized into clinical notes for documentation of clinical care. The automatic creation of clinical note is particularly challenging given that it requires summarization over spoken language and multiple speaker turns; as well, clinical notes include highly technical semi-structured text. In this paper, we describe our corpus creation method and baseline systems for two NLP tasks, clinical dialogue2note sentence alignment and clinical dialogue2note snippet summarization. These two systems, as well as other models created from such a corpus, may be incorporated as parts of an overall end-to-end clinical note generation system.
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2021.nlpmc-1.2
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Medical Conversations
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June
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2021
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Online
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Chaitanya Shivade, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Spandana Gella, Sandeep Konam, Shaoqing Yuan, Yi Zhang, Parminder Bhatia, Byron Wallace
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NLPMC
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10–20
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlpmc-1.2
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.nlpmc-1.2
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Wen-wai Yim and Meliha Yetisgen. 2021. Towards Automating Medical Scribing : Clinic Visit Dialogue2Note Sentence Alignment and Snippet Summarization. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Medical Conversations, pages 10–20, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Automating Medical Scribing : Clinic Visit Dialogue2Note Sentence Alignment and Snippet Summarization (Yim & Yetisgen, NLPMC 2021)
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