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Main Authors: Saley, Vishal Vivek, Saha, Goonjan, Das, Rocktim Jyoti, Raghu, Dinesh, Mausam
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14204
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author Saley, Vishal Vivek
Saha, Goonjan
Das, Rocktim Jyoti
Raghu, Dinesh
Mausam
author_facet Saley, Vishal Vivek
Saha, Goonjan
Das, Rocktim Jyoti
Raghu, Dinesh
Mausam
contents Medical task-oriented dialogue systems can assist doctors by collecting patient medical history, aiding in diagnosis, or guiding treatment selection, thereby reducing doctor burnout and expanding access to medical services. However, doctor-patient dialogue datasets are not readily available, primarily due to privacy regulations. Moreover, existing datasets lack comprehensive annotations involving medical slots and their different attributes, such as symptoms and their onset, progression, and severity. These comprehensive annotations are crucial for accurate diagnosis. Finally, most existing datasets are non-English, limiting their utility for the larger research community. In response, we introduce MediTOD, a new dataset of doctor-patient dialogues in English for the medical history-taking task. Collaborating with doctors, we devise a questionnaire-based labeling scheme tailored to the medical domain. Then, medical professionals create the dataset with high-quality comprehensive annotations, capturing medical slots and their attributes. We establish benchmarks in supervised and few-shot settings on MediTOD for natural language understanding, policy learning, and natural language generation subtasks, evaluating models from both TOD and biomedical domains. We make MediTOD publicly available for future research.
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spellingShingle MediTOD: An English Dialogue Dataset for Medical History Taking with Comprehensive Annotations
Saley, Vishal Vivek
Saha, Goonjan
Das, Rocktim Jyoti
Raghu, Dinesh
Mausam
Computation and Language
Medical task-oriented dialogue systems can assist doctors by collecting patient medical history, aiding in diagnosis, or guiding treatment selection, thereby reducing doctor burnout and expanding access to medical services. However, doctor-patient dialogue datasets are not readily available, primarily due to privacy regulations. Moreover, existing datasets lack comprehensive annotations involving medical slots and their different attributes, such as symptoms and their onset, progression, and severity. These comprehensive annotations are crucial for accurate diagnosis. Finally, most existing datasets are non-English, limiting their utility for the larger research community. In response, we introduce MediTOD, a new dataset of doctor-patient dialogues in English for the medical history-taking task. Collaborating with doctors, we devise a questionnaire-based labeling scheme tailored to the medical domain. Then, medical professionals create the dataset with high-quality comprehensive annotations, capturing medical slots and their attributes. We establish benchmarks in supervised and few-shot settings on MediTOD for natural language understanding, policy learning, and natural language generation subtasks, evaluating models from both TOD and biomedical domains. We make MediTOD publicly available for future research.
title MediTOD: An English Dialogue Dataset for Medical History Taking with Comprehensive Annotations
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14204