Papers by Ben Gerber
Towards Enhancing Health Coaching Dialogue in Low-Resource Settings (2022.coling-1)
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Yue Zhou, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Lisa Sharp, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Nikolaos Agadakos, Shweta Yadav
| Challenge: | Health coaching is cost-prohibitive due to its highly personalized nature. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a health coaching dialogue system that converses with patients . they propose to use simplified NLU and NLG frameworks and mechanism-conditioned empathetic response generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system generates more empathetic, fluent, and coherent responses . it outperforms the state-of-the-art in NLU tasks while requiring less annotations. |