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Automated voice calls are an effective method of delivering maternal and child health information to mothers in underserved communities. One method to fight dwindling listenership is through an intervention in which health workers make live…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Arpan Dasgupta , Niclas Boehmer , Neha Madhiwalla , Aparna Hedge , Bryan Wilder , Milind Tambe , Aparna Taneja

Customer support via chat requires agents to resolve customer queries with minimum wait time and maximum customer satisfaction. Given that the agents as well as the customers can have varying levels of literacy, the overall quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sonal Garg , Sumanth Prabhu , Hemant Misra , G. Srinivasaraghavan

Recently, utilizing deep neural networks to build the opendomain dialogue models has become a hot topic. However, the responses generated by these models suffer from many problems such as responses not being contextualized and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Mengjuan Liu , Chenyang Liu , Yunfan Yang , Jiang Liu , Mohan Jing

With the growing prevalence of psychological interventions, it is vital to have measures which rate the effectiveness of psychological care to assist in training, supervision, and quality assurance of services. Traditionally, quality…

Recent advances in pre-trained language models have significantly improved neural response generation. However, existing methods usually view the dialogue context as a linear sequence of tokens and learn to generate the next word through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Xiaodong Gu , Kang Min Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

Every year physicians face an increasing demand of image-based diagnosis from patients, a problem that can be addressed with recent artificial intelligence methods. In this context, we survey works in the area of automatic report generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Pablo Messina , Pablo Pino , Denis Parra , Alvaro Soto , Cecilia Besa , Sergio Uribe , Marcelo andía , Cristian Tejos , Claudia Prieto , Daniel Capurro

Access to electronic health records (EHRs) for digital health research is often limited by privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic EHRs have been proposed as a way to enable safe and sovereign data sharing; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guanglin Zhou , Armin Catic , Motahare Shabestari , Matthew Young , Chaiquan Li , Katrina Poppe , Sebastiano Barbieri

Task-oriented dialogue systems in industry settings need to have high conversational capability, be easily adaptable to changing situations and conform to business constraints. This paper describes a 3-step procedure to develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lahari Poddar , György Szarvas , Cheng Wang , Jorge Balazs , Pavel Danchenko , Patrick Ernst

Although neural conversation models are effective in learning how to produce fluent responses, their primary challenge lies in knowing what to say to make the conversation contentful and non-vacuous. We present a new end-to-end approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Lianhui Qin , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Xiaodong Liu , Xiang Gao , Bill Dolan , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

We study multi-turn response generation for open-domain dialogues. The existing state-of-the-art addresses the problem with deep neural architectures. While these models improved response quality, their complexity also hinders the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yufan Zhao , Can Xu , Wei Wu , Lei Yu

Smart Reply (SR) systems present a user with a set of replies, of which one can be selected in place of having to type out a response. To perform well at this task, a system should be able to effectively present the user with a diverse set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Benjamin Towle , Ke Zhou

Healthcare systems around the world are grappling with issues like inefficient diagnostics, rising costs, and limited access to specialists. These problems often lead to delays in treatment and poor health outcomes. Most current AI and deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Maliha Tabassum , M Shamim Kaiser

Mental health conversational agents have the potential to deliver valuable therapeutic impact, but low user engagement remains a critical barrier hindering their efficacy. Existing therapeutic approaches have leveraged clients' internal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mehrnoosh Sadat Shirvani , Jackie Liu , Thomas Chao , Suky Martinez , Laura Brandt , Ig-Jae Kim , Dongwook Yoon

Recent studies on automatic note generation have shown that doctors can save significant amounts of time when using automatic clinical note generation (Knoll et al., 2022). Summarization models have been used for this task to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Asma Ben Abacha , Wen-wai Yim , George Michalopoulos , Thomas Lin

Medical dialogue systems (MDS) aim to provide patients with medical services, such as diagnosis and prescription. Since most patients cannot precisely describe their symptoms, dialogue understanding is challenging for MDS. Previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kaishuai Xu , Wenjun Hou , Yi Cheng , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li

Constructing responses in task-oriented dialogue systems typically relies on information sources such the current dialogue state or external databases. This paper presents a novel approach to knowledge-grounded response generation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nicholas Thomas Walker , Stefan Ultes , Pierre Lison

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for supporting healthcare services has never been more necessitated than by the recent global pandemic. Here, we review the state-of-the-art in AI-enabled Chatbots in healthcare proposed during the last 10 years…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya , Vibhav Sinai Pissurlenkar

We consider real world task-oriented dialog settings, where agents need to generate both fluent natural language responses and correct external actions like database queries and updates. We demonstrate that, when applied to customer support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Rashmi Gangadharaiah , Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy , Charles Elkan

Neural generative models have become popular and achieved promising performance on short-text conversation tasks. They are generally trained to build a 1-to-1 mapping from the input post to its output response. However, a given post is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jun Gao , Wei Bi , Xiaojiang Liu , Junhui Li , Shuming Shi

To contain the spread of the virus and stop the overcrowding of hospitalized patients, the coronavirus pandemic crippled healthcare facilities, mandating lockdowns and promoting remote work. As a result, telehealth has become increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Abdullah Bin Shams , Md. Mohsin Sarker Raihan , Md. Mohi Uddin Khan , Ocean Monjur , Rahat Bin Preo