Care4Lang at MEDIQA-Chat 2023: Fine-tuning Language Models for Classifying and Summarizing Clinical Dialogues

Abstract

Summarizing medical conversations is one of the tasks proposed by MEDIQA-Chat to promote research on automatic clinical note generation from doctor-patient conversations. In this paper, we present our submission to this task using fine-tuned language models, including T5, BART and BioGPT models. The finetuned models are evaluated using ensemble metrics including ROUGE, BERTScore and BLEURT. Among the fine-tuned models, FlanT5 achieved the highest aggregated score for dialogue summarization.