Towards Automating Healthcare Question Answering in a Noisy Multilingual Low-Resource Setting (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a study aims to automate a multilingual digital helpdesk service available via text messaging to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in South Africa. |
| Approach: | They examine a multilingual digital helpdesk service available via text messaging to pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in South Africa. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can accelerate response time by several orders of magnitude. |
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