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Clinical tasks such as diagnosis and treatment require strong decision-making abilities, highlighting the importance of rigorous evaluation benchmarks to assess the reliability of large language models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a…

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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in understanding and responding to user intents. However, their performance lag behind general use cases in some expertise domains, such as Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Songhua Yang , Hanjie Zhao , Senbin Zhu , Guangyu Zhou , Hongfei Xu , Yuxiang Jia , Hongying Zan

We present a new multimodal question answering challenge, ManyModalQA, in which an agent must answer a question by considering three distinct modalities: text, images, and tables. We collect our data by scraping Wikipedia and then utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Darryl Hannan , Akshay Jain , Mohit Bansal

We present a refined approach to biomedical question-answering (QA) services by integrating large language models (LLMs) with Multi-BERT configurations. By enhancing the ability to process and prioritize vast amounts of complex biomedical…

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We developed a task-oriented dialogue framework structured as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of medical questions. The system integrates: (1) a systematic pipeline for transforming medical algorithms and guidelines into a clinical question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Rui Reis , Pedro Rangel Henriques , João Ferreira-Coimbra , Eva Oliveira , Nuno F. Rodrigues

In this paper, we introduce MeDiaQA, a novel question answering(QA) dataset, which constructed on real online Medical Dialogues. It contains 22k multiple-choice questions annotated by human for over 11k dialogues with 120k utterances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Huqun Suri , Qi Zhang , Wenhua Huo , Yan Liu , Chunsheng Guan

Clinical question answering (QA) aims to automatically answer questions from medical professionals based on clinical texts. Studies show that neural QA models trained on one corpus may not generalize well to new clinical texts from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Xiang Yue , Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Ziyu Yao , Simon Lin , Huan Sun

Medical deep learning models depend heavily on domain-specific knowledge to perform well on knowledge-intensive clinical tasks. Prior work has primarily leveraged unimodal knowledge graphs, such as the Unified Medical Language System…

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Seeking dietary guidance often requires navigating complex professional knowledge while accommodating individual health conditions. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer structured and interpretable nutritional information, whereas Large Language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fan Gao , Xinjie Zhao , Ding Xia , Zhongyi Zhou , Rui Yang , Jinghui Lu , Hang Jiang , Chanjun Park , Irene Li

While conversing with chatbots, humans typically tend to ask many questions, a significant portion of which can be answered by referring to large-scale knowledge graphs (KG). While Question Answering (QA) and dialog systems have been…

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The success of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in the medical auxiliary field shows great potential, allowing patients to engage in conversations using physiological signal data. However, general MLLMs perform poorly in cardiac…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Yubao Zhao , Jiaju Kang , Tian Zhang , Puyu Han , Tong Chen

Beyond current conversational chatbots or task-oriented dialogue systems that have attracted increasing attention, we move forward to develop a dialogue system for automatic medical diagnosis that converses with patients to collect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Lin Xu , Qixian Zhou , Ke Gong , Xiaodan Liang , Jianheng Tang , Liang Lin

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an effective alternative medicine, has been receiving increasing attention. In recent years, the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) tailored for TCM has highlighted the urgent need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiacheng Xie , Yang Yu , Ziyang Zhang , Shuai Zeng , Jiaxuan He , Ayush Vasireddy , Xiaoting Tang , Congyu Guo , Lening Zhao , Congcong Jing , Guanghui An , Dong Xu

Online medical forums have long served as vital platforms where patients seek professional healthcare advice, generating vast amounts of valuable knowledge. However, the informal nature and linguistic complexity of forum interactions pose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Antonio Romano , Giuseppe Riccio , Mariano Barone , Marco Postiglione , Vincenzo Moscato

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a rich repository of ancient medical knowledge that continues to play an important role in modern healthcare. Due to the complexity and breadth of the TCM literature, the integration of AI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Jinglin He , Yunqi Guo , Lai Kwan Lam , Waikei Leung , Lixing He , Yuanan Jiang , Chi Chiu Wang , Guoliang Xing , Hongkai Chen

Chinese medical question-answer matching is more challenging than the open-domain question answer matching in English. Even though the deep learning method has performed well in improving the performance of question answer matching, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Xiongtao Cui , Jungang Han

Clinical problem-solving requires processing of semantic medical knowledge such as illness scripts and numerical medical knowledge of diagnostic tests for evidence-based decision-making. As large language models (LLMs) show promising…

Mental disorders are highly prevalent worldwide, but the shortage of psychiatrists and the inherent subjectivity of interview-based diagnosis create substantial barriers to timely and consistent mental-health assessment. Progress in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Shihao Xu , Tiancheng Zhou , Jiatong Ma , Yanli Ding , Yiming Yan , Ming Xiao , Guoyi Li , Haiyang Geng , Yunyun Han , Jianhua Chen , Yafeng Deng

Exploiting relationships between visual regions and question words have achieved great success in learning multi-modality features for Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, we argue that existing methods mostly model relations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Peng Gao , Haoxuan You , Zhanpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Multimodal information extraction (MIE) aims to extract structured information from unstructured multimedia content. Due to the diversity of tasks and settings, most current MIE models are task-specific and data-intensive, which limits…

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