Medical dialogue systems are promising in assisting in telemedicine to increase access to healthcare services, improve the quality of patient care, and reduce medical costs. To facilitate the research and development of medical dialogue systems, we build two large-scale medical dialogue datasets: MedDialog-EN and MedDialog-CN. MedDialog-EN is an English dataset containing 0.3 million conversations between patients and doctors and 0.5 million utterances. MedDialog-CN is an Chinese dataset containing 1.1 million conversations and 4 million utterances. To our best knowledge, MedDialog-(EN,CN) are the largest medical dialogue datasets to date. The dataset is available at https://github.com/UCSD-AI4H/Medical-Dialogue-System
@article{arxiv.2004.03329,
title = {MedDialog: Two Large-scale Medical Dialogue Datasets},
author = {Xuehai He and Shu Chen and Zeqian Ju and Xiangyu Dong and Hongchao Fang and Sicheng Wang and Yue Yang and Jiaqi Zeng and Ruisi Zhang and Ruoyu Zhang and Meng Zhou and Penghui Zhu and Pengtao Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03329},
year = {2020}
}