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An automated medical scribe for documenting clinical encounters

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Finley, Gregory, Edwards, Erik, Robinson, Amanda, Brenndoerfer, Michael, Sadoughi, Najmeh, Fone, James, Axtmann, Nico, Miller, Mark +1 more·2018·Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations

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Gregory Finley, Erik Edwards, Amanda Robinson, Michael Brenndoerfer, Najmeh Sadoughi, James Fone, Nico Axtmann, Mark Miller, David Suendermann-Oeft. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations. 2018.

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  • Having multiple speakers participating in the conversation and differentiating them in the audio adds a level of complexity and potential errors to ASR.

    “Having multiple speakers participating in the conversation and differentiating them in the audio (speaker diarization) also adds a level of complexity and potential errors to ASR.7”
  • After conversion from speech to text, NLP techniques that perform well on grammatically correct sentences break down with conversational speech because of the lack of punctuation and sentence boundaries, grammatical differences between spoken and written language, and lack of structure.

    “After conversion from speech to text, NLP techniques that perform well on grammatically correct sentences break down with conversational speech because of the lack of punctuation and sentence boundaries, grammatical differences between spoken and written language, and lack of structure.7,24,25”
  • Generating a medical summary from a clinician-patient conversation can be cast as a supervised learning task, where an ML algorithm is trained with a large set of past medical conversation transcripts along with the gold standard summary associated with each conversation.

    “Generating a medical summary from a clinician–patient conversation can be cast as a supervised learning task,32 where an ML algorithm is trained with a large set of past medical conversation transcripts along with the gold standard summary associated with each conversation.7,33”

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Authors
Finley, G., Edwards, E., Robinson, A., Brenndoerfer, M., Sadoughi, N., Fone, J., Axtmann, N., Miller, M., & Suendermann-Oeft, D.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DE)
Corresponding author
Finley, Gregory
Venue
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
Published
2018
Pages
11-15
OpenAlex
W2806237610
Cited by
61
References
25
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3
FWCI
7.86
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Issues, ethics and legal aspects › Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
Keywords
medical scribes, clinical documentation, automated documentation, clinical text generation, clinical natural language processing

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