Automatic summarisation has the potential to aid physicians in streamlining clerical tasks such as note taking. But it is notoriously difficult to evaluate these systems and demonstrate that they are safe to be used in a clinical setting. To circumvent this issue, we propose a semi-automatic approach whereby physicians post-edit generated notes before submitting them. We conduct a preliminary study on the time saving of automatically generated consultation notes with post-editing. Our evaluators are asked to listen to mock consultations and to post-edit three generated notes. We time this and find that it is faster than writing the note from scratch. We present insights and lessons learnt from this experiment.

翻译：自动总结有可能帮助医生简化笔记等文书工作。 但是,评估这些系统并证明这些系统在临床环境中使用是安全的非常困难的。 为回避这一问题,我们建议采取半自动办法,在提交之前由医生在编辑后生成笔记。我们初步研究了自动生成的编辑后咨询笔记的节省时间问题。我们要求我们的评估员聆听模拟咨询,在编辑后生成的三份笔记。我们用这个时间来计算,发现它比从零开始写笔记要快。我们介绍了从这一实验中汲取的洞察力和教训。