Program

Monday, 18 July, 2002

(Note: all times are US East Coast!)

14.00 – 14.05 Welcome

14.05 – 15.00 Natalie Parde (University of Illinois, Chicago) – The AI Doctor Is In: Towards Intelligent Automated Support for Healthcare Tasks using Natural Language Processing

15.00 – 15.20 In-Domain Pre-Training Improves Clinical Note Generation from Doctor-Patient Conversations – Colin A. Grambow, Longxiang Zhang, Thomas Schaaf

15.20 – 15.40 Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach – Leighanne Hsu, Rommy Marquez Hernandez, Kathleen McCoy, Keith Decker, Ajith Kumar Vemuri, Greg Dominic 
 
15.40 – 16.15 Coffee/Tea break
 
16.15 – 16.30 DrivingBeacon: Driving Behaviour Change Support System ConAsidering Mobile Use and Geo-information -Jawwad Baig, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin, Ehud Reiter

16.30 – 16.45 Personalizing Weekly Diet Reports -Elena Monfroglio, Luca Anselma, Alessandro Mazzei

16.45 – 17.00 LCHQA-Summ: Multi-perspective Summarization of Publicly Sourced Consumer Health Answers – Abari Bhattacharya, Rochana Chaturvedi, Shweta Yadav

17.00 – 17.55 Panel discussion with Timothy Bickmore (Northeasthern), Cathy Herbert (Arria), and Natalie Parde (Illinois)

17.55 – 18.00 Closing

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Invited speaker

Natalie Parde (University of Illinois, Chicago) – The AI Doctor Is In: Towards Intelligent Automated Support for Healthcare Tasks using Natural Language Processing

Brief Bio: Natalie Parde is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also co-directs UIC’s Natural Language Processing Laboratory.  Her research interests are in natural language processing, with emphases in healthcare applications, interactive systems, multimodality, and creative language.  Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Office Ergonomics Research Committee, and other University of Illinois internal funding programs.  She serves on the program committees of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL), and is a recent recipient of UIC’s College of Engineering (COE) Teaching Award.  In her spare time, Dr. Parde enjoys engaging in mentorship and outreach for underrepresented CS students.

Panel discussion

We will have a discussion on “Opportunities for NLG in Healthcare” with Timothy Bickmore (Northeasthern), Cathy Herbert (Arria), and Natalie Parde (Illinois)

Accepted papers

Long papers

In-Domain Pre-Training Improves Clinical Note Generation from Doctor-Patient Conversations – Colin A. Grambow, Longxiang Zhang, Thomas Schaaf
 
Towards Development of an Automated Health Coach – Leighanne Hsu, Rommy Marquez Hernandez, Kathleen McCoy, Keith Decker, Ajith Kumar Vemuri, Greg Dominic 
 
Short Papers
 
DrivingBeacon: Driving Behaviour Change Support System ConAsidering Mobile Use and Geo-information – Jawwad Baig, Guanyi Chen, Chenghua Lin, Ehud Reiter
 
Personalizing Weekly Diet Reports – Elena Monfroglio, Luca Anselma, Alessandro Mazzei
 
Non-archival abstracts (not included in proceedings)
 
LCHQA-Summ: Multi-perspective Summarization of Publicly Sourced Consumer Health Answers – Abari Bhattacharya, Rochana Chaturvedi, Shweta Yadav