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Medical dialogue generation aims to generate responses according to a history of dialogue turns between doctors and patients. Unlike open-domain dialogue generation, this requires background knowledge specific to the medical domain.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chen Tang , Hongbo Zhang , Tyler Loakman , Chenghua Lin , Frank Guerin

Efficient patient-doctor interaction is among the key factors for a successful disease diagnosis. During the conversation, the doctor could query complementary diagnostic information, such as the patient's symptoms, previous surgery, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xueshen Li , Xinlong Hou , Nirupama Ravi , Ziyi Huang , Yu Gan

Medical dialogue systems have attracted growing research attention as they have the potential to provide rapid diagnoses, treatment plans, and health consultations. In medical dialogues, a proper diagnosis is crucial as it establishes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Kaishuai Xu , Wenjun Hou , Yi Cheng , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li

Medical dialogue systems have attracted significant attention for their potential to act as medical assistants. Enabling these medical systems to emulate clinicians' diagnostic reasoning process has been the long-standing research focus.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kaishuai Xu , Yi Cheng , Wenjun Hou , Qiaoyu Tan , Wenjie Li

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

Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito

Clinical reasoning in medicine is a hypothesis-driven process where physicians refine diagnoses from limited information through targeted history, physical examination, and diagnostic investigations. In contrast, current medical benchmarks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christopher Chiu , Silviu Pitis , Mihaela van der Schaar

Current medical AI systems often fail to replicate real-world clinical reasoning, as they are predominantly trained and evaluated on static text and question-answer tasks. These tuning methods and benchmarks overlook critical aspects like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zijie Liu , Xinyu Zhao , Jie Peng , Zhuangdi Zhu , Qingyu Chen , Kaidi Xu , Xia Hu , Tianlong Chen

A medical provider's summary of a patient visit serves several critical purposes, including clinical decision-making, facilitating hand-offs between providers, and as a reference for the patient. An effective summary is required to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Varun Nair , Elliot Schumacher , Anitha Kannan

Being able to generate informative and coherent dialogue responses is crucial when designing human-like open-domain dialogue systems. Encoder-decoder-based dialogue models tend to produce generic and dull responses during the decoding step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ziming Li , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

Medical dialogue generation is an important yet challenging task. Most previous works rely on the attention mechanism and large-scale pretrained language models. However, these methods often fail to acquire pivotal information from the long…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yu Zhao , Yunxin Li , Yuxiang Wu , Baotian Hu , Qingcai Chen , Xiaolong Wang , Yuxin Ding , Min Zhang

The medical dialogue system is a promising application that can provide great convenience for patients. The dialogue state tracking (DST) module in the medical dialogue system which interprets utterances into the machine-readable structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jun Liu , Tong Ruan , Haofen Wang , Huanhuan Zhang

The generation of personalized dialogue is vital to natural and human-like conversation. Typically, personalized dialogue generation models involve conditioning the generated response on the dialogue history and a representation of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jing Yang Lee , Kong Aik Lee , Woon Seng Gan

A good empathetic dialogue system should first track and understand a user's emotion and then reply with an appropriate emotion. However, current approaches to this task either focus on improving the understanding of users' emotion or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yuhan Liu , Jun Gao , Jiachen Du , Lanjun Zhou , Ruifeng Xu

While large language models hold promise for complex medical applications, their development is hindered by the scarcity of high-quality reasoning data. To address this issue, existing approaches typically distill chain-of-thought reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haolin Li , Shuyang Jiang , Ruipeng Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Understanding a medical conversation between a patient and a physician poses a unique natural language understanding challenge since it combines elements of standard open ended conversation with very domain specific elements that require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Anirudh Joshi , Namit Katariya , Xavier Amatriain , Anitha Kannan

There is growing interest in the automated extraction of relevant information from clinical dialogues. However, it is difficult to collect and construct large annotated resources for clinical dialogue tasks. Recent developments in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhengyuan Liu , Pavitra Krishnaswamy , Nancy F. Chen

Medical dialogue systems (MDS) have emerged as crucial online platforms for enabling multi-turn, context-aware conversations with patients. However, existing MDS often struggle to (1) identify relevant medical knowledge and (2) generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hongda Sun , Jiaren Peng , Wenzhong Yang , Liang He , Bo Du , Rui Yan

Medical dialogue systems (MDS) enhance patient-physician communication, improve healthcare accessibility, and reduce costs. However, acquiring suitable data to train these systems poses significant challenges. Privacy concerns prevent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Trisha Das , Dina Albassam , Jimeng Sun

Goal-oriented dialog systems enable users to complete specific goals like requesting information about a movie or booking a ticket. Typically the dialog system pipeline contains multiple ML models, including natural language understanding,…

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