# MedDialog: Two Large-scale Medical Dialogue Datasets

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03329 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.03329/

## Key facts

- Cited by 161 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 7 Apr 2020.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Medical dialogue systems are promising in assisting in telemedicine to increase access to healthcare services, improve the quality of patient care, and reduce medical costs. To facilitate the research and development of medical dialogue systems, we build two large-scale medical dialogue datasets: MedDialog-EN and MedDialog-CN. MedDialog-EN is an English dataset containing 0.3 million conversations between patients and doctors and 0.5 million utterances. MedDialog-CN is an Chinese dataset containing 1.1 million conversations and 4 million utterances. To our best knowledge, MedDialog-(EN,CN) are the largest medical dialogue datasets to date. The dataset is available at https://github.com/UCSD-AI4H/Medical-Dialogue-System