Background Chatbots are applications that can conduct natural language conversations with
users. In the medical field, chatbots have been developed and used to serve different …

The use of natural language interfaces in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) is
undergoing intense study through dedicated scientific and industrial research. The latest …

Authors' addresses: Quim Motger, jmotger@ essi. upc. edu; Xavier Franch, franch@ essi.
upc. edu, Department of Service and Information System Engineering (ESSI), Universitat …

Medical dialogue systems interact with patients to collect symptoms and provide treatment
advice. In this task, medical entities (eg, diseases, symptoms, and medicines) are the most …

Health care institutions (HCI in further text) are in constant interplay with their context,
generating ensuing opportunities and threats. Knowledge management has been …

Question-answering systems are recognized as popular and frequently effective means of
information seeking on the web. In such systems, information seekers can receive a concise …

The development of conversational agents to interact with patients and deliver clinical
advice has attracted the interest of many researchers, particularly in light of the COVID-19 …

Given a health-related question (such as" I have a bad stomach ache. What should I do?"), a
medical self-diagnosis Android inquires further information from the user, diagnoses the …

Breaking the barrier for practicing evidence-based medicine rely on effective methods for
rapidly identifying relevant evidences from the body of biomedical literature. An important …

Medical dialogue generation (MDG) has gained increasing attention due to its substantial
practical value. Previous works typically employ a sequence-to-sequence framework to …