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Validating a virtual human and automated feedback system for training doctor-patient communication skills
Kurtis Haut, Caleb Wohn, Benjamin Kane +6
Effective communication between a clinician and their patient is critical for delivering healthcare maximizing outcomes. Unfortunately, traditional communication training approache…
A Flexible Schema-Guided Dialogue Management Framework: From Friendly Peer to Virtual Standardized Cancer Patient
Benjamin Kane, Catherine Giugno, Lenhart Schubert +3
A schema-guided approach to dialogue management has been shown in recent work to be effective in creating robust customizable virtual agents capable of acting as friendly peers or…
Natural Language Inference with Mixed Effects
William Gantt, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Steven White
There is growing evidence that the prevalence of disagreement in the raw annotations used to construct natural language inference datasets makes the common practice of aggregating…
Novel Computational Linguistic Measures, Dialogue System and the Development of SOPHIE: Standardized Online Patient for Healthcare Interaction Education
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Taylan Sen, Benjamin Kane +5
In this paper, we describe the iterative participatory design of SOPHIE, an online virtual patient for feedback-based practice of sensitive patient-physician conversations, and dis…
History-Aware Question Answering in a Blocks World Dialogue System
Benjamin Kane, Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart K. Schubert
It is essential for dialogue-based spatial reasoning systems to maintain memory of historical states of the world. In addition to conveying that the dialogue agent is mentally pres…
A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World
Georgiy Platonov, Benjamin Kane, Aaron Gindi +1
The blocks world is a classic toy domain that has long been used to build and test spatial reasoning systems. Despite its relative simplicity, tackling this domain in its full comp…