title: Augmented transition networks as a representation for knowledge-based history-taking systems.
abstract: Numerous history-taking systems have been built to automate the medical history-taking process. These systems differ in their control methods, input and output modalities, and kinds of questions asked. Thus, there has emerged no standard way of representing interviewing knowledge--the expert knowledge used to govern the sequence of questions asked in an interview. This paper discusses how we use an augmented transition network (ATN) to represent the knowledge of a speech-driven automated history-taking program, Q-MED, and how, more generally, ATNs could be used as a representation for any knowledge-based history-taking system. We identify three characteristics of ATNs that facilitate the use of ATNs in interviewing systems: explicitness, hierarchical structure, and generality.
authors: Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5479.
authors: A D
authors: AD
authors: Poon
authors: K B
authors: KB
authors: Johnson
authors: L M
authors: LM
authors: Fagan
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D008487:Medical History Taking; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012985:Software Design