Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshop, 2009. BIBMW 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5121-0
DOI :
10.1109/BIBMW.2009.5332111
