
The information for one output sentence is potentially spread across multiple conversation turns.
There is no explicit sentence alignment between input and output.
Various medical specialties, encounter types, and EHR systems constitute a broad and complex output space. 
Physicians have different styles of conducting encounters and have their preferences for medical reports; there is no standard. 
Standard summarization metrics might differ from human judgment of quality.





Figure 2: Transcript of a patient-doctor conversation





Figure 3: Excerpt of an AI-generated medical report. HPI stands for History of present illness.

Text Summarization with PyTorch and Fairseq