MedConQA: Medical Conversational Question Answering System based on Knowledge Graphs (2022.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | Existing medical dialogue systems have the problems of weak scalability, insufficient knowledge, and poor controllability. |
| Approach: | They propose a medical conversational question-answering system based on the knowledge graph to improve scalability and controllability. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can conduct knowledge-grounded dialogues with users, using a Chinese medical knowledge graph and a large-scale dataset. |
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