Coding Structures and Actions with the COSTA Scheme in Medical Conversations

Nan Wang, Yan Song, Fei Xia


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.
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W18-2309
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Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop
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July
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2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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76–86
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-2309
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10.18653/v1/W18-2309
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Nan Wang, Yan Song, and Fei Xia. 2018. Coding Structures and Actions with the COSTA Scheme in Medical Conversations. In Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop, pages 76–86, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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