A text style transfer system for reducing the physician-patient expertise gap: An analysis with automatic and human evaluations

Luca Bacco, Felice Dell'Orletta, Huiyuan Lai, Mario Merone, Malvina Nissim

Abstract: Highlights•Development of Text Style Transfer system to improve physician–patient communication.•Development of Semantic Textual Similarity methods for collecting parallel datasets.•Evaluation of the impact of collected parallel data on the Text Style Transfer.•Performance analysis based on physicians’ evaluation.•A new dataset for Semantic Similarity and Style Transfer in the medical domain.