Paula G. Allen-Meares
2024
A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Monitoring Salt Content in Food
Anuja Tayal
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Barbara Di Eugenio
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Devika Salunke
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Andrew D. Boyd
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Carolyn A. Dickens
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Eulalia P. Abril
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Olga Garcia-Bedoya
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Paula G. Allen-Meares
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024
We propose a dialogue system that enables heart failure patients to inquire about salt content in foods and help them monitor and reduce salt intake. Addressing the lack of specific datasets for food-based salt content inquiries, we develop a template-based conversational dataset. The dataset is structured to ask clarification questions to identify food items and their salt content. Our findings indicate that while fine-tuning transformer-based models on the dataset yields limited performance, the integration of Neuro-Symbolic Rules significantly enhances the system’s performance. Our experiments show that by integrating neuro-symbolic rules, our system achieves an improvement in joint goal accuracy of over 20% across different data sizes compared to naively fine-tuning transformer-based models.
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