Wei-Lin Chen


2022

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Learning to Generate Explanation from e-Hospital Services for Medical Suggestion
Wei-Lin Chen | An-Zi Yen | Hen-Hsen Huang | Hsin-Hsi Chen
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Explaining the reasoning of neural models has attracted attention in recent years. Providing highly-accessible and comprehensible explanations in natural language is useful for humans to understand model’s prediction results. In this work, we present a pilot study to investigate explanation generation with a narrative and causal structure for the scenario of health consulting. Our model generates a medical suggestion regarding the patient’s concern and provides an explanation as the outline of the reasoning. To align the generated explanation with the suggestion, we propose a novel discourse-aware mechanism with multi-task learning. Experimental results show that our model achieves promising performances in both quantitative and human evaluation.