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Active Learning for Conversational Interfaces in Healthcare Applications

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Artificial Intelligence in Health (AIH 2018)

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In automated health services based on text and voice interfaces, there is a need to be able to understand what the user is talking about, and what is the attitude of the user towards a subject. Typical machine learning methods for text analysis require a lot of annotated data for the training. This is often a problem in addressing specific and possibly very personal health care needs. In this paper, we propose an active learning algorithm for the training of a text classifier for a conversational therapy application in the area of health behavior change. A new active learning algorithm, Query by Embedded Committee (QBEC), is proposed in the paper. The methods are particularly suitable for the text classification task in a dynamic environment and give a good performance with realistic test data.

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    The ethical and legal approval of the data collection was granted, and handled according to, by the Internal Committee for Biomedical Experiments (ICBE) of Philips.

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  1. Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Aki Härmä

  2. Philips Research, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey Polyakov

  3. Sberbank, Moscow, Russia

    Ekaterina Artemova

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  3. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

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  4. Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy

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  5. HES-SO Valais Wallis, Sierre, Switzerland

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Härmä, A., Polyakov, A., Artemova, E. (2019). Active Learning for Conversational Interfaces in Healthcare Applications. In: Koch, F., et al. Artificial Intelligence in Health. AIH 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11326. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12738-1_4

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