Federico Fontana


2025

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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
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health)

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.