arXiv Computation and Language By Vishalakshi Arumugam, Dan Schumacher, Veronica Rammouz, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Enrique Gonzalez Guerrero, Jeremy Davis, Anthony Rios

Understanding Clinical Cognitive Dialogues Using Large Language Models

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The paper introduces a de‑identified corpus of 33 in‑person cognitive assessment conversations, comprising 8,250 utterances annotated for three speaker roles and 56 dialogue acts. The authors benchmark large language models on fine‑grained dialogue‑act classification and next‑patient‑utterance generation, finding that instruction tuning and reasoning‑aware fine‑tuning improve performance but that models still struggle with closely related dialogue acts. The corpus and benchmark are presented as tools to measure interaction structure in cognitive assessments and to support future research on conversational markers, clinician education, and validated simulated patients.

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