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Domain Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) error correction via machine translation is a useful technique for improving out-of-domain outputs of pre-trained ASR systems to obtain optimal results for specific in-domain tasks. We use this technique on our dataset of Doctor-Patient conversations using two off-the-shelf ASR systems: Google ASR (commercial) and the ASPIRE model (open-source). We train a Sequenceto-Sequence Machine Translation model and evaluate it on seven specific UMLS Semantic types, including Pharmacological Substance, Sign or Symptom, and Diagnostic Procedure to name a few. Lastly, we breakdown, analyze and discuss the 7% overall improvement in word error rate in view of each Semantic type.

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Automated Medication Regimen (MR) extraction from medical conversations can not only improve recall and help patients follow through with their care plan, but also reduce the documentation burden for doctors. In this paper, we focus on extracting spans for frequency, route and change, corresponding to medications discussed in the conversation. We first describe a unique dataset of annotated doctor-patient conversations and then present a weakly supervised model architecture that can perform span extraction using noisy classification data. The model utilizes an attention bottleneck inside a classification model to perform the extraction. We experiment with several variants of attention scoring and projection functions and propose a novel transformer-based attention scoring function (TAScore). The proposed combination of TAScore and Fusedmax projection achieves a 10 point increase in Longest Common Substring F1 compared to the baseline of additive scoring plus softmax projection.

Mango cultivation methods being adopted currently are ineffective and low productive despite consuming huge man power. Advancements in robust unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's), high speed image processing algorithms and machine vision techniques, reinforce the possibility of transforming agricultural scenario to modernity within prevailing time and energy constraints. Present paper introduces Agricultural Aid for Mango cutting (AAM), an Agribot that could be employed for precision mango farming. It is a quadcopter empowered with vision and cutter systems complemented with necessary ancillaries. It could hover around the trees, detect the ripe mangoes, cut and collect them. Paper also sheds light on the available Agribots that have mostly been limited to the research labs. AAM robot is the first of its kind that once implemented could pave way to the next generation Agribots capable of increasing the agricultural productivity and justify the existence of intelligent machines.