Learning to Generate Explanation from e-Hospital Services for Medical Suggestion

Wei-Lin Chen, An-Zi Yen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen


Abstract
Explaining the reasoning of neural models has attracted attention in recent years. Providing highly-accessible and comprehensible explanations in natural language is useful for humans to understand model’s prediction results. In this work, we present a pilot study to investigate explanation generation with a narrative and causal structure for the scenario of health consulting. Our model generates a medical suggestion regarding the patient’s concern and provides an explanation as the outline of the reasoning. To align the generated explanation with the suggestion, we propose a novel discourse-aware mechanism with multi-task learning. Experimental results show that our model achieves promising performances in both quantitative and human evaluation.
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2022.coling-1.260
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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2946–2951
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.260
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Wei-Lin Chen, An-Zi Yen, Hen-Hsen Huang, and Hsin-Hsi Chen. 2022. Learning to Generate Explanation from e-Hospital Services for Medical Suggestion. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2946–2951, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Learning to Generate Explanation from e-Hospital Services for Medical Suggestion (Chen et al., COLING 2022)
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