MIME - NLG in Pre-Hospital Care

The cross-disciplinary MIME project aims to develop a mobile medical monitoring system that improves handover transactions in rural pre-hospital scenarios between the first person on scene and ambulance clinicians. NLG is used to produce a textual handover report at any time, summarising data from novel medical sensors, as well as observations and actions recorded by the carer. We describe the MIME project with a focus on the NLG algorithm and an initial evaluation of the generated reports.

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