A Virtual Patient Dialogue System Based on Question-Answering on Clinical Records (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | a new approach to annotating medical dialogues with intents is proposed for virtual patients . a VP is a system that allows medical students to simulate a real clinical consultation . |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate medical dialogue questions in Spanish and a second dataset of dialogues using a novel annotation approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach eliminates the need for manually structured patient records . the two datasets and the code will be freely available for the research community. |
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