文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Prompt-based Generative Approach towards Multi-Hierarchical Medical Dialogue State Tracking

作者：Liu, Jun[1]; Ruan, Tong[1]; Wang, Haofen[2]; Zhang, Huanhuan[1]

机构：[1] East China University of Science and Technology, China; [2] Tongji University, China

年份：2022

外文期刊名：arXiv

收录：EI(收录号：20220068105)

语种：英文

外文关键词：Decision support systems - Natural language processing systems

摘要：The medical dialogue system is a promising application that can provide great convenience for patients. The dialogue state tracking (DST) module in the medical dialogue system which interprets utterances into the machine-readable structure for downstream tasks is particularly challenging. Firstly, the states need to be able to represent compound entities such as symptoms with their body part or diseases with degrees of severity to provide enough information for decision support. Secondly, these named entities in the utterance might be discontinuous and scattered across sentences and speakers. These also make it difficult to annotate a large corpus which is essential for most methods. Therefore, we first define a multi-hierarchical state structure. We annotate and publish a medical dialogue dataset in Chinese. To the best of our knowledge, there are no publicly available ones before. Then we propose a Prompt-based Generative Approach which can generate slot values with multi-hierarchies incrementally using a top-down approach. A dialogue style prompt is also supplemented to utilize the large unlabeled dialogue corpus to alleviate the data scarcity problem. The experiments show that our approach outperforms other DST methods and is rather effective in the scenario with little data. ? 2022, CC BY.