Speech recognition in a dialog system for patient health monitoring

Author

Galescu, Lucian ; Allen, James ; Ferguson, George ; Quinn, Jill ; Swift, Mary

Author_Institution

Inst. for Human & Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-4 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

307

Abstract

We describe CARDIAC, a prototype for an intelligent conversational assistant that provides health monitoring for chronic heart failure patients. CARDIAC supports user initiative through its ability to understand natural language and connect it to intention recognition. The spoken language interface allows patients to interact with CARDIAC without special training. We present speech recognition results obtained during an evaluation with fourteen chronic heart failure patients.

Keywords

cardiology; health care; interactive systems; natural language interfaces; natural language processing; patient care; patient monitoring; speech recognition; CARDIAC; chronic heart failure patients; dialog system; intelligent conversational assistant; intention recognition; natural language; patient health monitoring; speech recognition; spoken language interface; Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; Guidelines; Hafnium; Heart; Medical services; Natural languages; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Speech recognition; chronic heart failure; data acquisition; dialog systems; natural language processing; patient self-management; speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshop, 2009. BIBMW 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5121-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBMW.2009.5332111

Filename

5332111