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Existing medical RAG systems mainly leverage knowledge from medical knowledge bases, neglecting the crucial role of experiential knowledge derived from similar patient cases -- a key component of human clinical reasoning. To bridge this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuxing Lu , Gecheng Fu , Wei Wu , Xukai Zhao , Sin Yee Goi , Jinzhuo Wang

Conversational diagnosis requires multi-turn history-taking, where an agent asks clarifying questions to refine differential diagnoses under incomplete information. Existing approaches often rely on the parametric knowledge of a model or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jeongmoon Won , Seungwon Kook , Yohan Jo

Online medical consultation platforms, while convenient, are undermined by significant privacy risks that erode user trust. We first conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 users to understand their perceptions of security and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shuning Zhang , Ying Ma , Yongquan `Owen' Hu , Ting Dang , Hong Jia , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Currently, personal assistant systems, run on smartphones and use natural language interfaces. However, these systems rely mostly on the web for finding information. Mobile and wearable devices can collect an enormous amount of contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Reza Rawassizadeh , Chelsea Dobbins , Manouchehr Nourizadeh , Zahra Ghamchili , Michael Pazzani

Vision evaluations are typically done through multi-step processes. In most contemporary fields, experts analyze images using structured, evidence-based adaptive questioning. In plant pathology, botanists inspect leaf images, identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Syed Nazmus Sakib , Nafiul Haque , Shahrear Bin Amin , Hasan Muhammad Abdullah , Md. Mehedi Hasan , Mohammad Zabed Hossain , Shifat E. Arman

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a recently proposed task, where an agent is placed in a rich 3D environment and must act based solely on its egocentric input to answer a given question. The desired outcome is that the agent learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Cătălina Cangea , Eugene Belilovsky , Pietro Liò , Aaron Courville

Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very common for analyzing data and discovering critical insights. Often people analyze charts to answer questions that they have in mind. Answering such questions can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Enamul Hoque , Parsa Kavehzadeh , Ahmed Masry

Question answering (QA) aims to understand questions and find appropriate answers. In real-world QA systems, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) based QA is usually a practical and effective solution, especially for some complicated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruobing Xie , Yanan Lu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

Community Question-Answering (CQA) forums have revolutionized how people seek information, especially those related to their healthcare needs, placing their trust in the collective wisdom of the public. However, there can be several answers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Rochana Chaturvedi , Abari Bhattacharya , Shweta Yadav

This study focuses on a reverse question answering (QA) procedure, in which machines proactively raise questions and humans supply the answers. This procedure exists in many real human-machine interaction applications. However, a crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Rujing Yao , Linlin Hou , Lei Yang , Jie Gui , Qing Yin , Ou Wu

Nowadays, one of the main challenges for Question Answering Systems is to answer complex questions using various sources of information. Multi-hop questions are a type of complex questions that require multi-step reasoning to answer. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arash Ghafouri , Hasan Naderi , Mohammad Aghajani asl , Mahdi Firouzmandi

In this paper we introduce ClinQueryAgent, a system for translating natural language population health questions into executable database queries using agents with access to both local and external knowledge bases. Our novel architecture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Joseph S. Boyle , Anthony Dranfield , Mike O'Neil , Maria Liakata , Alison Q. Smithard

Large language models (LLMs) have performed well in providing general and extensive health suggestions in single-turn conversations, exemplified by systems such as ChatGPT, ChatGLM, ChatDoctor, DoctorGLM, and etc. However, the limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yirong Chen , Zhenyu Wang , Xiaofen Xing , huimin zheng , Zhipei Xu , Kai Fang , Junhong Wang , Sihang Li , Jieling Wu , Qi Liu , Xiangmin Xu

This paper evaluates the user interface of an in vitro fertility (IVF) outcome prediction tool, focussing on its understandability for patients or potential patients. We analyse four years of anonymous patient feedback, followed by a user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Adarsa Sivaprasad , Ehud Reiter , David McLernon , Nava Tintarev , Siladitya Bhattacharya , Nir Oren

Brief Hospital Course (BHC) summaries are succinct summaries of an entire hospital encounter, embedded within discharge summaries, written by senior clinicians responsible for the overall care of a patient. Methods to automatically produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , James Teo , Richard Dobson

Predicting health risks from electronic health records (EHR) is a topic of recent interest. Deep learning models have achieved success by modeling temporal and feature interaction. However, these methods learn insufficient representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhihao Yu , Chaohe Zhang , Yasha Wang , Wen Tang , Jiangtao Wang , Liantao Ma

Multi-hop Question Answering over Knowledge Graph~(KGQA) aims to find the answer entities that are multiple hops away from the topic entities mentioned in a natural language question on a large-scale Knowledge Graph (KG). To cope with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jinhao Jiang , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Privacy policies are long and complex documents that are difficult for users to read and understand, and yet, they have legal effects on how user data is collected, managed and used. Ideally, we would like to empower users to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Abhilasha Ravichander , Alan W Black , Shomir Wilson , Thomas Norton , Norman Sadeh

Background: Polypharmacy, i.e. taking five drugs or more, is both a public health and an economic issue. Medication reviews are structured interviews of the patient by the community pharmacist, aiming at optimizing the drug treatment and…

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites have become valuable knowledge repositories where individuals exchange information by asking and answering questions. With an ever-increasing number of questions and high migration of users in and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Vaibhav Krishna , Nino Antulov-Fantulin