Medical Dialogue: A Survey of Categories, Methods, Evaluation and Challenges

arXiv:2405.10630v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper surveys and organizes research works on medical dialog systems, which is an important yet challenging task. Although these systems have been surveyed in the medical community from an application perspective, a systematic review from a rigorous technical perspective has to date remained noticeably absent. As a result, an overview of the categories, methods, and evaluation of medical dialogue systems remain limited and underspecified, hindering the further improvement of this area. To fill this …

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