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Main Authors: Zhou, Yue, Di Eugenio, Barbara, Ziebart, Brian, Sharp, Lisa, Liu, Bing, Agadakos, Nikolaos
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10268
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author Zhou, Yue
Di Eugenio, Barbara
Ziebart, Brian
Sharp, Lisa
Liu, Bing
Agadakos, Nikolaos
author_facet Zhou, Yue
Di Eugenio, Barbara
Ziebart, Brian
Sharp, Lisa
Liu, Bing
Agadakos, Nikolaos
contents Health coaching helps patients achieve personalized and lifestyle-related goals, effectively managing chronic conditions and alleviating mental health issues. It is particularly beneficial, however cost-prohibitive, for low-socioeconomic status populations due to its highly personalized and labor-intensive nature. In this paper, we propose a neuro-symbolic goal summarizer to support health coaches in keeping track of the goals and a text-units-text dialogue generation model that converses with patients and helps them create and accomplish specific goals for physical activities. Our models outperform previous state-of-the-art while eliminating the need for predefined schema and corresponding annotation. We also propose a new health coaching dataset extending previous work and a metric to measure the unconventionality of the patient's response based on data difficulty, facilitating potential coach alerts during deployment.
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spellingShingle Modeling Low-Resource Health Coaching Dialogues via Neuro-Symbolic Goal Summarization and Text-Units-Text Generation
Zhou, Yue
Di Eugenio, Barbara
Ziebart, Brian
Sharp, Lisa
Liu, Bing
Agadakos, Nikolaos
Computation and Language
Health coaching helps patients achieve personalized and lifestyle-related goals, effectively managing chronic conditions and alleviating mental health issues. It is particularly beneficial, however cost-prohibitive, for low-socioeconomic status populations due to its highly personalized and labor-intensive nature. In this paper, we propose a neuro-symbolic goal summarizer to support health coaches in keeping track of the goals and a text-units-text dialogue generation model that converses with patients and helps them create and accomplish specific goals for physical activities. Our models outperform previous state-of-the-art while eliminating the need for predefined schema and corresponding annotation. We also propose a new health coaching dataset extending previous work and a metric to measure the unconventionality of the patient's response based on data difficulty, facilitating potential coach alerts during deployment.
title Modeling Low-Resource Health Coaching Dialogues via Neuro-Symbolic Goal Summarization and Text-Units-Text Generation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10268