Summarizing Medical Conversations via Identifying Important Utterances (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the medical field is a prevailing trend nowadays and has great potential in many applications, such as key information extraction in medical literature. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a hierarchical encoder-tagger model to generate medical conversation summarization by identifying important utterances. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models and models and adds conversation-related features to improve performance. |
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