A Preliminary Study on NLP-Based Personalized Support for Type 1 Diabetes Management

Sandra Mitrović, Federico Fontana, Andrea Zignoli, Felipe Mattioni Maturana, Christian Berchtold, Daniele Malpetti, Sam Scott, Laura Azzimonti


Abstract
The proliferation of wearable devices and sports monitoring apps has made tracking physical activity more accessible than ever. For individuals with Type 1 diabetes, regular exercise is essential for managing the condition, making personalized feedback particularly valuable. By leveraging data from physical activity sessions, NLP-generated messages can offer tailored guidance to help users optimize their workouts and make informed decisions. In this study, we assess several open-source pre-trained NLP models for this purpose. Contrary to expectations, our findings reveal that models fine-tuned on medical data or excelling in medical benchmarks do not necessarily produce high-quality messages.
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2025.cl4health-1.25
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health)
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May
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sophia Ananiadou, Dina Demner-Fushman, Deepak Gupta, Paul Thompson
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Sandra Mitrović, Federico Fontana, Andrea Zignoli, Felipe Mattioni Maturana, Christian Berchtold, Daniele Malpetti, Sam Scott, and Laura Azzimonti. 2025. A Preliminary Study on NLP-Based Personalized Support for Type 1 Diabetes Management. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health), pages 298–302, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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