Exploring the Influence of Dialog Input Format for Unsupervised Clinical Questionnaire Filling
Farnaz Ghassemi Toudeshki, Anna Liednikova, Philippe Jolivet, Claire Gardent
Abstract
In the medical field, we have seen the emergence of health-bots that interact with patients to gather data and track their state. One of the downstream application is automatic questionnaire filling, where the content of the dialog is used to automatically fill a pre-defined medical questionnaire. Previous work has shown that answering questions from the dialog context can successfully be cast as a Natural Language Inference (NLI) task and therefore benefit from current pre-trained NLI models. However, NLI models have mostly been trained on text rather than dialogs, which may have an influence on their performance. In this paper, we study the influence of content transformation and content selection on the questionnaire filling task. Our results demonstrate that dialog pre-processing can significantly improve the performance of zero-shot questionnaire filling models which take health-bots dialogs as input.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.louhi-1.1
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
- Editors:
- Alberto Lavelli, Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky, Fabio Rinaldi
- Venue:
- Louhi
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1–13
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.louhi-1.1
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.louhi-1.1
- Cite (ACL):
- Farnaz Ghassemi Toudeshki, Anna Liednikova, Philippe Jolivet, and Claire Gardent. 2022. Exploring the Influence of Dialog Input Format for Unsupervised Clinical Questionnaire Filling. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI), pages 1–13, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Exploring the Influence of Dialog Input Format for Unsupervised Clinical Questionnaire Filling (Ghassemi Toudeshki et al., Louhi 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2022.louhi-1.1.pdf