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How NLG is improving Healthcare

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London NLG Meetup Sept 13th Event- How NLG is improving healthcare

Join us for an evening of talks and networking with pizza and drinks at G-Research premises! Please note that registration is strictly required so guests can get access to the building: go.arria.com

Talk 1 "Consultation Note Generation - a Journey towards Design, Live Testing & Evaluation"

Clinicians in the UK and US are required to write extensive textual records of each patient encounter. While valuable, these notes put stress on the clinicians' limited time and detract from a focus on patients. Francesco Moramarco will introduce Consultation Note Generation and discuss the steps Babylon took to turn note taking into an NLG product, focusing on UX requirements, a pilot study in live clinical practice, and model evaluation.

Talk 2: “Natural Language Generation in Healthcare”

Dr. Ehud Reiter will discuss the many exciting applications of natural language generation in healthcare, including the Babytalk project, where NLG is used to generate clinical decision support texts, nursing shift handover reports, and patient information updates for babies in a neonatal ICU, using information extracted from the patient record. He will also cover recent work in other use cases, including using NLG to encourage people to change health-related behaviours, and generate draft clinical study reports for regulators.

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About Francesco Moramarco

Francesco Moramarco is a research scientist at Babylon and a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, supervised by Ehud Reiter and Anya Belz. His research interest is NLG in the medical domain with a special focus towards evaluation. For more information on Babylon, please visit: www.babylonhealth.com

About Ehud Reiter

Ehud Reiter is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen and the Chief Scientist of Arria NLG. He has been working in Natural Language Generation for 35 years and is one of the most cited and respected researchers in this field. Prof Reiter has a Google Scholar h-index of 54 and is currently chair of the ACL Special Interest Group on Generation (SIGGEN). He has a long-standing interest in using NLG in health applications and is currently working on several projects in this area with Babylon, Philips, and colleagues at Arria and at Aberdeen’s Medical School. For more information about Prof Reiter, see ehudreiter.com

Agenda:

Tuesday 13 September

17.00 pm doors open

17.30 pm talks start

18.30- 19.30 Networking

Location:

G-Research, Whittington House, 19-30 Alfred Place, London, WC1E 7EA