Consultation checklists: standardising the human evaluation of medical note generation
Savkov, AleksandarORCID: 0009-0009-6831-5563, Moramarco, Francesco, Korfiatis, Alex Papadopoulos, Perera, Mark, Belz, AnyaORCID: 0000-0002-0552-8096 and Reiter, EhudORCID: 0000-0002-7548-9504
(2022)
Consultation checklists: standardising the human evaluation of medical note generation.
In: EMNLP 2022 Industry Track, 9-11 Dec 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
valuating automatically generated text is generally hard due to the inherently subjective nature of many aspects of the output quality. This difficulty is compounded in automatic consultation note generation by differing opinions between medical experts both about which patient statements should be included in generated notes and about their respective importance in arriving at a diagnosis. Previous real-world evaluations of note-generation systems saw substantial disagreement between expert evaluators. In this paper we propose a protocol that aims to increase objectivity by grounding evaluations in Consultation Checklists, which are created in a preliminary step and then used as a common point of reference during quality assessment. We observed good levels of inter-annotator agreement in a first evaluation study using the protocol; further, using Consultation Checklists produced in the study as reference for automatic metrics such as ROUGE or BERTScore improves their correlation with human judgements compared to using the original human note.
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