@inproceedings{wang-etal-2018-coding,
    title = "Coding Structures and Actions with the {COSTA} Scheme in Medical Conversations",
    author = "Wang, Nan  and
      Song, Yan  and
      Xia, Fei",
    editor = "Demner-Fushman, Dina  and
      Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel  and
      Ananiadou, Sophia  and
      Tsujii, Junichi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the {B}io{NLP} 2018 workshop",
    month = jul,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Melbourne, Australia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W18-2309/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-2309",
    pages = "76--86",
    abstract = "This paper describes the COSTA scheme for coding structures and actions in conversation. Informed by Conversation Analysis, the scheme introduces an innovative method for marking multi-layer structural organization of conversation and a structure-informed taxonomy of actions. In addition, we create a corpus of naturally occurring medical conversations, containing 318 video-recorded and manually transcribed pediatric consultations. Based on the annotated corpus, we investigate 1) treatment decision-making process in medical conversations, and 2) effects of physician-caregiver communication behaviors on antibiotic over-prescribing. Although the COSTA annotation scheme is developed based on data from the task-specific domain of pediatric consultations, it can be easily extended to apply to more general domains and other languages."
}