Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18109v1
• Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 14:23:34 GMT
• Title: Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling
• Authors: Kaishuai Xu, Wenjun Hou, Yi Cheng, Jian Wang, Wenjie Li
• Abstract summary: Medical dialogue systems (MDS) aim to provide patients with medical services, such as diagnosis and prescription. Previous studies mainly addressed this by extracting the mentioned medical entities as critical dialogue history information. In this work, we argue that it is also essential to capture the transitions of the medical entities and the doctor's dialogue acts in each turn.
• Score: 9.328694317877169
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Medical dialogue systems (MDS) aim to provide patients with medical services, such as diagnosis and prescription. Since most patients cannot precisely describe their symptoms, dialogue understanding is challenging for MDS. Previous studies mainly addressed this by extracting the mentioned medical entities as critical dialogue history information. In this work, we argue that it is also essential to capture the transitions of the medical entities and the doctor's dialogue acts in each turn, as they help the understanding of how the dialogue flows and enhance the prediction of the entities and dialogue acts to be adopted in the following turn. Correspondingly, we propose a Dual Flow enhanced Medical (DFMed) dialogue generation framework. It extracts the medical entities and dialogue acts used in the dialogue history and models their transitions with an entity-centric graph flow and a sequential act flow, respectively. We employ two sequential models to encode them and devise an interweaving component to enhance their interactions. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate that our method exceeds baselines in both automatic and manual evaluations.

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