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Physicians spend significant time documenting clinical encounters, a burden that contributes to professional burnout. To address this, robust automation tools for medical documentation are crucial. We introduce MedSynth -- a novel dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ahmad Rezaie Mianroodi , Amirali Rezaie , Niko Grisel Todorov , Cyril Rakovski , Frank Rudzicz

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

Developing conversational agents to interact with patients and provide primary clinical advice has attracted increasing attention due to its huge application potential, especially in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic. However, the training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Wenge Liu , Jianheng Tang , Yi Cheng , Wenjie Li , Yefeng Zheng , Xiaodan Liang

The majority of current systems for end-to-end dialog generation focus on response quality without an explicit control over the affective content of the responses. In this paper, we present an affect-driven dialog system, which generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Pierre Colombo , Wojciech Witon , Ashutosh Modi , James Kennedy , Mubbasir Kapadia

Medical conversations offer insights into clinical communication often absent from Electronic Health Records. However, developing reliable clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) models is hampered by the scarcity of domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Cecilia Kuan , Aditya Kamlesh Parikh , Henk van den Heuvel

Reproducibility of research is essential for science. However, in the way modern computational biology research is done, it is easy to lose track of small, but extremely critical, details. Key details, such as the specific version of a…

Medical dialogue generation aims to provide automatic and accurate responses to assist physicians to obtain diagnosis and treatment suggestions in an efficient manner. In medical dialogues two key characteristics are relevant for response…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Dongdong Li , Zhaochun Ren , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Miao Fan , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke

The development of conversational agents to interact with patients and deliver clinical advice has attracted the interest of many researchers, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The training of an end-to-end neural based dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Deeksha Varshney , Aizan Zafar , Niranshu Kumar Behra , Asif Ekbal

Achieving empathy is a crucial step toward humanized dialogue systems. Current approaches for empathetic dialogue generation mainly perceive an emotional label to generate an empathetic response conditioned on it, which simply treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Fengyi Fu , Lei Zhang , Quan Wang , Zhendong Mao

The need for high-quality data has been a key issue hindering the research of dialogue tasks. Recent studies try to build datasets through manual, web crawling, and large pre-trained models. However, man-made data is expensive and data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Hang Yin , Pinren Lu , Ziang Li , Bin Sun , Kan Li

A growing body of work uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to automatically generate medical notes from audio recordings of doctor-patient consultations. However, there are very few studies on how such systems could be used in…

This paper introduces Med-Bot, an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide users with accurate and reliable medical information. Utilizing advanced libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, Chromadb, Langchain and Autogptq, Med-Bot is built…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ahan Bhatt , Nandan Vaghela

Using natural language processing (NLP) technologies to develop medical chatbots makes the diagnosis of the patient more convenient and efficient, which is a typical application in healthcare AI. Because of its importance, lots of research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ke Liang , Sifan Wu , Jiayi Gu

The intelligent dialogue system, aiming at communicating with humans harmoniously with natural language, is brilliant for promoting the advancement of human-machine interaction in the era of artificial intelligence. With the gradually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hao Wang , Bin Guo , Yating Zeng , Yasan Ding , Chen Qiu , Ying Zhang , Lina Yao , Zhiwen Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) produce eloquent texts but often the content they generate needs to be verified. Traditional information retrieval systems can assist with this task, but most systems have not been designed with LLM-generated…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yingqiang Gao , Jhony Prada , Nianlong Gu , Jessica Lam , Richard H. R. Hahnloser

Dialogue is at the core of human behaviour and being able to identify the topic at hand is crucial to take part in conversation. Yet, there are few accounts of the topical organisation in casual dialogue and of how people recognise the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Amandine Decker , Vincent Tourneur , Maxime Amblard , Ellen Breitholtz

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) are the two critical components of every conversational system that handles the task of understanding the user by capturing the necessary information in the form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Mauajama Firdaus , Avinash Madasu , Asif Ekbal

Spurred by recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), virtual assistants are poised to take a leap forward in terms of their dialogue capabilities. Yet a major bottleneck to achieving genuinely transformative task-oriented dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Joe Stacey , Jianpeng Cheng , John Torr , Tristan Guigue , Joris Driesen , Alexandru Coca , Mark Gaynor , Anders Johannsen

This paper presents Dialogos, a real-time system for human-machine spoken dialogue on the telephone in task-oriented domains. The system has been tested in a large trial with inexperienced users and it has proved robust enough to allow…

Understanding the reason for emotional support response is crucial for establishing connections between users and emotional support dialogue systems. Previous works mostly focus on generating better responses but ignore interpretability,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tenggan Zhang , Xinjie Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Li Zhou , Qin Jin