Design and Development of a Machine Learning and NLP-Based Healthcare Chatbot for Symptom Analysis, Disease Prediction, and Voice-Enabled Patient Assistance

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10.2991/978-94-6239-789-7_46How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Healthcare Chatbot; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Health Monitoring; Symptom Analysis; Conversational AI; Digital Healthcare; Patient Assistance

Abstract

Healthcare chatbot using natural language processing for health monitoring and early diagnosis-piloting. Digital medicine is rapidly developing, which has increased the demand for smart systems that provide timely medical assistance and continuous health monitoring. A possible solution is a Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based healthcare chatbot, in which a user can communicate with the system in natural language to report symptoms, seek a doctor consultation, and monitor his/her health status. In this paper, the reader will learn how to develop a healthcare chatbot that employs NLP to understand users’ queries, fetch relevant medical data, and respond accordingly. The proposed system can be used for health monitoring as it enables the users to track their symptoms, basic health advice, drug reminder, and early alerts of potential medical issues. The chatbot will streamline the provision of healthcare services, lessen the burden on healthcare workers, and promote early detection and prevention of diseases by combining conversational intelligence with health monitoring functionalities.

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AU  - Neha Yadav
AU  - Altamash Sheikh
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/08
TI  - Design and Development of a Machine Learning and NLP-Based Healthcare Chatbot for Symptom Analysis, Disease Prediction, and Voice-Enabled Patient Assistance
BT  - Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Innovation and Practices in Artificial Intelligence (ICIPAI 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 692
EP  - 704
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-789-7_46
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-789-7_46
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