Towards Extracting Medical Family History from Natural Language Interactions: A New Dataset and Baselines (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Using dialog agents, we can collect family history data from in-person consultations and crowdsource it to a genetic counselor. |
| Approach: | They propose to use natural language interactions annotated with medical family histories to collect information from a genetic counselor and crowdsourcing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system averages 0.87 on complex sentences on the targeted relations. |
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