High-Quality Medical Dialogue Synthesis for Improving EMR Generation (2025.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating EMRs from doctor-patient dialogues produce rigid and repetitive dialogues. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates Intent Graph Planning, Dual-Agent Simulation and Rule-Reward Quality Control to generate realistic doctor-patient dialogues. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly enhances realism, diversity and downstream EMR quality, reducing physician editing efforts. |
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