Automatic generation of spoken dialogue from medical plans and ontologies

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 482-499

  Beveridge, Martin ^a   Fox, John ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Conversational game; Dialogue; Healthcare; Ontology; PROforma; Speech; Task

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONVERSATIONAL GAME; INTELLIGENT DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL GUIDELINES; MEDICAL SEMANTIC DICTIONARIES;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

EID: 33748137238     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2005.12.008     Document Type: Article

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