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Title:Chester: Towards a Personal Medication Adviser |
Authors:
James Allen
; George Ferguson
; Nate Blaylock
; Donna Byron
; Nathaniel Chambers
; Myroslava Dzikovska
; Lucian Galescu
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Date:Jan 2006 |
Publication Title:Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Special Issue on Dialogue Systems for health communication |
Publisher:Elsevier |
Publication Type:Journal Article
Publication Status:Published
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Volume No:# 39(5)
Page Nos:500-513
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DOI:10.1016/j.jbi.2006.02.004
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- Abstract:
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Dialogue systems for health communication hold out the promise of providing intelligent assistance to patients through natural interfaces that require no training to use. But in order to make the development of such systems cost effective, we must be able to use generic techniques and components which are then specialized as needed to the specific health problem and patient population. In this paper, we describe Chester, a prototype intelligent assistant that interacts with its user via conversational natural spoken language to provide them with information and advice regarding their prescribed medications. Chester builds on our prior experience constructing conversational assistants in other domains. The emphasis of this paper is on the portability of our generic spoken dialogue technology, and presents a case study of the application of these techniques to the development of a dialogue system for health communication.
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- Bibtex format
- @Article{EDI-INF-RR-0666,
- author = {
James Allen
and George Ferguson
and Nate Blaylock
and Donna Byron
and Nathaniel Chambers
and Myroslava Dzikovska
and Lucian Galescu
},
- title = {Chester: Towards a Personal Medication Adviser},
- journal = {Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Special Issue on Dialogue Systems for health communication},
- publisher = {Elsevier},
- year = 2006,
- month = {Jan},
- volume = {# 39(5)},
- pages = {500-513},
- doi = {10.1016/j.jbi.2006.02.004},
- }
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