Objective Our objective was to review the characteristics, current applications, and
evaluation measures of conversational agents with unconstrained natural language input …

Background The personalization of conversational agents with natural language user
interfaces is seeing increasing use in health care applications, shaping the content …

When we first started planning to write a book on how people would be able to talk in a
natural way to their smartphones, devices and robots, we could not have anticipated that the …

The growing and aging of the world population have driven the shortage of medical
resources in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the rapid …

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue
systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken …

Recent advances in natural language understanding and processing have resulted in
renewed interest in natural language interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism …

Health dialogue systems are required to respect some special requirements such as
predictability and reliability. While knowledge based approaches still seem to be the most …

Recent advances in natural language understanding and processing resulted in renewed
interest in natural language based interfaces to data, which provide an easy mechanism for …

On the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, high-risk and vulnerable groups in the
population were at particular risk of severe disease progression. Pregnant women were one …

Domain-specific knowledge bases (KB), carefully curated from various data sources, provide
an invaluable reference for professionals. Conversation systems make these KBs easily …