A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food
Anuja Tayal, Barbara Di Eugenio, Devika Salunke, Andrew D. Boyd, Carolyn A. Dickens, Eulalia P. Abril, Olga Garcia-Bedoya, Paula G. Allen-Meares
Abstract
We propose a dialogue system that enables heart failure patients to inquire about salt content in foods and help them monitor and reduce salt intake. Addressing the lack of specific datasets for food-based salt content inquiries, we develop a template-based conversational dataset. The dataset is structured to ask clarification questions to identify food items and their salt content. Our findings indicate that while fine-tuning transformer-based models on the dataset yields limited performance, the integration of Neuro-Symbolic Rules significantly enhances the system’s performance. Our experiments show that by integrating neuro-symbolic rules, our system achieves an improvement in joint goal accuracy of over 20% across different data sizes compared to naively fine-tuning transformer-based models.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.cl4health-1.11
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Paul Thompson, Brian Ondov
- Venues:
- CL4Health | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 93–103
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.cl4health-1.11
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Anuja Tayal, Barbara Di Eugenio, Devika Salunke, Andrew D. Boyd, Carolyn A. Dickens, Eulalia P. Abril, Olga Garcia-Bedoya, and Paula G. Allen-Meares. 2024. A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 93–103, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food (Tayal et al., CL4Health-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2024.cl4health-1.11.pdf