A survey on dialogue summarization: Recent advances and new frontiers

X Feng, X Feng, B Qin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03175, 2021 - arxiv.org
Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version
covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload …

The digital scribe in clinical practice: a scoping review and research agenda

MM van Buchem, H Boosman, MP Bauer, IMJ Kant… - NPJ digital …, 2021 - nature.com
The number of clinician burnouts is increasing and has been linked to a high administrative
burden. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) …

A hierarchical network for abstractive meeting summarization with cross-domain pretraining

C Zhu, R Xu, M Zeng, X Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02016, 2020 - arxiv.org
With the abundance of automatic meeting transcripts, meeting summarization is of great
interest to both participants and other parties. Traditional methods of summarizing meetings …

Structure-aware abstractive conversation summarization via discourse and action graphs

J Chen, D Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08400, 2021 - arxiv.org
Abstractive conversation summarization has received much attention recently. However,
these generated summaries often suffer from insufficient, redundant, or incorrect content …

Topic-aware contrastive learning for abstractive dialogue summarization

J Liu, Y Zou, H Zhang, H Chen, Z Ding, C Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Unlike well-structured text, such as news reports and encyclopedia articles, dialogue content
often comes from two or more interlocutors, exchanging information with each other. In such …

Language model as an annotator: Exploring DialoGPT for dialogue summarization

X Feng, X Feng, L Qin, B Qin, T Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12544, 2021 - arxiv.org
Current dialogue summarization systems usually encode the text with a number of general
semantic features (eg, keywords and topics) to gain more powerful dialogue modeling …

Generating SOAP notes from doctor-patient conversations using modular summarization techniques

K Krishna, S Khosla, JP Bigham, ZC Lipton - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Following each patient visit, physicians draft long semi-structured clinical summaries called
SOAP notes. While invaluable to clinicians and researchers, creating digital SOAP notes is …

Controllable neural dialogue summarization with personal named entity planning

Z Liu, NF Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13070, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a controllable neural generation framework that can flexibly guide
dialogue summarization with personal named entity planning. The conditional sequences …

ConvoSumm: Conversation summarization benchmark and improved abstractive summarization with argument mining

AR Fabbri, F Rahman, I Rizvi, B Wang, H Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
While online conversations can cover a vast amount of information in many different formats,
abstractive text summarization has primarily focused on modeling solely news articles. This …

Coreference-aware dialogue summarization

Z Liu, K Shi, NF Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08556, 2021 - arxiv.org
Summarizing conversations via neural approaches has been gaining research traction
lately, yet it is still challenging to obtain practical solutions. Examples of such challenges …