Modeling Health Coaching Dialogues for Behavioral Goal Extraction

Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian D. Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben S. Gerber, Lisa K. Sharp

Abstract: In this paper, we will discuss our framework for summarizing goals discussed during health coaching dialogues. This can help coaches to recall patients' goals without reading the conversations. We build two supervised classification models, one for extracting the slot-values (goal attributes) and another to model the dialogue flow (stages-phases) of the conversation. Using these two models and heuristics, we build our goal extraction pipeline.