Attend to Medical Ontologies: Content Selection for Clinical Abstractive Summarization (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have reported that clinicians read the IMPRESSION as they have less time to review findings. |
| Approach: | They propose to augment salient ontological terms into the abstractive summarizer by augmenting salient ontologies into the semantic summariser. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model significantly improves state-of-the-art results in terms of ROUGE metrics on two publicly available clinical data sets. |
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