English
Related papers

Related papers: PlugMed: Improving Specificity in Patient-Centered…

200 papers

Language models have steadily increased in size over the past few years. They achieve a high level of performance on various natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and summarization. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jessica Huynh , Cathy Jiao , Prakhar Gupta , Shikib Mehri , Payal Bajaj , Vishrav Chaudhary , Maxine Eskenazi

Current large language models (LLMs) excel at general NLP tasks but often lack domain specific precision in professional settings. Building a high quality domain specific multi turn dialogue dataset is essential for developing specialized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuanyuan Liang , Xiaoman Wang , Tingyu Xie , Lei Pan

Previous in-context learning (ICL) research has focused on tasks such as classification, machine translation, text2table, etc., while studies on whether ICL can improve human-like dialogue generation are scarce. Our work fills this gap by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jiashu Pu , Yajing Wan , Yuru Zhang , Jing Chen , Ling Cheng , Qian Shao , Yongzhu Chang , Tangjie Lv , Rongsheng Zhang

Despite the plethora of telehealth applications to assist home-based older adults and healthcare providers, basic messaging and phone calls are still the most common communication methods, which suffer from limited availability, information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ziqi Yang , Xuhai Xu , Bingsheng Yao , Shao Zhang , Ethan Rogers , Stephen Intille , Nawar Shara , Guodong Gordon Gao , Dakuo Wang

Text-based telemedicine has become increasingly common, yet the quality of medical advice in doctor-patient interactions is often judged more on how advice is communicated rather than its clinical accuracy. To address this, we introduce Dr.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Andrei Niculae , Adrian Cosma , Cosmin Dumitrache , Emilian Rǎdoi

In our study, we evaluated large language model (LLM) performance on pharmacy licensure-style question-answering tasks and developed an external knowledge integration method to improve accuracy. We benchmarked ten LLMs with varying…

This paper explores the application of prompt engineering to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in the domain of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). We propose TCM-Prompt, a framework that integrates various pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yirui Chen , Qinyu Xiao , Jia Yi , Jing Chen , Mengyang Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for clinical decision support, where hallucinations and unsafe suggestions may pose direct risks to patient safety. These risks are hard to assess: subtle clinical errors are often missed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yinzhu Chen , Abdine Maiga , Hossein A. Rahmani , Emine Yilmaz

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful dialogue agents, but specializing them towards fulfilling a specific function can be challenging. Instructing tuning, i.e. tuning models on instruction and sample responses generated by humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Dennis Ulmer , Elman Mansimov , Kaixiang Lin , Justin Sun , Xibin Gao , Yi Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise for assisting clinical interviews due to their fluent interactive capabilities and extensive medical knowledge. However, the lack of high-quality interview dialogue data and widely accepted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jing Chen , Zhihua Wei , Wei Zhang , Yingying Hu , Qiong Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing complex datasets. Recent studies demonstrate their potential to generate useful, personalized responses when provided with patient-specific health information that…

The emergence of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) has advanced the field of dialogue systems, enabling both realistic user simulations and robust multi-turn conversational agents. However, existing research often evaluates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Chalamalasetti Kranti , Sherzod Hakimov , David Schlangen

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant promise in clinical diagnosis. However, current models struggle to emulate the iterative, diagnostic hypothesis-driven reasoning of real clinical scenarios.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Qipeng Wang , Rui Sheng , Yafei Li , Huamin Qu , Yushi Sun , Min Zhu

Large language model (LLM) applications, such as ChatGPT, are a powerful tool for online information-seeking (IS) and problem-solving tasks. However, users still face challenges initializing and refining prompts, and their cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ben Wang , Jiqun Liu , Jamshed Karimnazarov , Nicolas Thompson

Health monitoring systems have revolutionized modern healthcare by enabling the continuous capture of physiological and behavioral data, essential for preventive measures and early health intervention. While integrating this data with Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Ajan Subramanian , Zhongqi Yang , Iman Azimi , Amir M. Rahmani

The conventional pretraining-and-finetuning paradigm, while effective for common diseases with ample data, faces challenges in diagnosing data-scarce occupational diseases like pneumoconiosis. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Meiyue Song , Zhihua Yu , Jiaxin Wang , Jiarui Wang , Yuting Lu , Baicun Li , Xiaoxu Wang , Qinghua Huang , Zhijun Li , Nikolaos I. Kanellakis , Jiangfeng Liu , Jing Wang , Binglu Wang , Juntao Yang

Large language models (LLMs) struggle in real-world clinical consultations. Single-turn consultation systems require patients to describe all symptoms at once, which often leads to unclear complaints and vague diagnoses. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yichun Feng , Jiawei Wang , Lu Zhou , Yikai Zheng , Zhen Lei , Yixue Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied in various professional fields. By fine-tuning the models using domain specific question and answer datasets, the professional domain knowledge and Q\&A abilities of these models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Qimin Yang , Rongsheng Wang , Jiexin Chen , Runqi Su , Tao Tan

Open-domain dialogue systems have seen remarkable advancements with the development of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, most existing dialogue systems predominantly focus on brief single-session interactions, neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hao Li , Chenghao Yang , An Zhang , Yang Deng , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Effective patient communication is pivotal in healthcare, yet traditional medical training often lacks exposure to diverse, challenging interpersonal dynamics. To bridge this gap, this study proposes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)…