CliniDial: A Naturally Occurring Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Team Reflection in Action During Clinical Operation
Naihao Deng, Kapotaksha Das, Rada Mihalcea, Vitaliy Popov, Mohamed Abouelenien
Abstract
In clinical operations, teamwork can be the crucial factor that determines the final outcome. Prior studies have shown that sufficient collaboration is the key factor that determines the outcome of an operation. To understand how the team practices teamwork during the operation, we collected **CliniDial** from simulations of medical operations. **CliniDial** includes the audio data and its transcriptions, the simulated physiology signals of the patient manikins, and how the team operates from two camera angles. We annotate behavior codes following an existing framework to understand the teamwork process for **CliniDial**. We pinpoint three main characteristics of our dataset, including its label imbalances, rich and natural interactions, and multiple modalities, and conduct experiments to test existing LLMs’ capabilities on handling data with these characteristics. Experimental results show that **CliniDial** poses significant challenges to the existing models, inviting future effort on developing methods that can deal with real-world clinical data. We open-source the codebase at https://github.com/MichiganNLP/CliniDial.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.findings-acl.1121
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 21781–21798
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.findings-acl.1121/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Naihao Deng, Kapotaksha Das, Rada Mihalcea, Vitaliy Popov, and Mohamed Abouelenien. 2025. CliniDial: A Naturally Occurring Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Team Reflection in Action During Clinical Operation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 21781–21798, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- CliniDial: A Naturally Occurring Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Team Reflection in Action During Clinical Operation (Deng et al., Findings 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.findings-acl.1121.pdf