---
language: 
- en
- zh
bigbio_language: 
- English
- Chinese
license: unknown
bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN
pretty_name: MedDialog
homepage: https://github.com/UCSD-AI4H/Medical-Dialogue-System
bigbio_pubmed: False
bigbio_public: True
bigbio_tasks: 
- TEXT_CLASSIFICATION
---


# Dataset Card for MedDialog

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://github.com/UCSD-AI4H/Medical-Dialogue-System
- **Pubmed:** False
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** Text Classification



The MedDialog dataset (English) contains conversations (in English) between doctors and patients.It has 0.26 million dialogues. The data is continuously growing and more dialogues will be added. The raw dialogues are from healthcaremagic.com and icliniq.com.
All copyrights of the data belong to healthcaremagic.com and icliniq.com.



## Citation Information

```

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2004-03329,
  author    = {Shu Chen and
               Zeqian Ju and
               Xiangyu Dong and
               Hongchao Fang and
               Sicheng Wang and
               Yue Yang and
               Jiaqi Zeng and
               Ruisi Zhang and
               Ruoyu Zhang and
               Meng Zhou and
               Penghui Zhu and
               Pengtao Xie},
  title     = {MedDialog: {A} Large-scale Medical Dialogue Dataset},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/2004.03329},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03329},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {2004.03329},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2004-03329.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

```