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Development and Evaluation of HEAL A Bilingual English-Luganda RAG Chatbot for Disease Surveillance in Uganda

2026-08-06

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Frontline health workers in Uganda are often unable to use disease surveillance guidelines effectively: the Pdf documents are long, technical, and written in English, leaving Luganda-speaking workers without practical access. Off-the-shelf large language models generate plausible but ungrounded advice that can contradict national protocols. We developed HEAL, a bilingual chatbot using r...

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Literature Corpus work: f0c70790-9a86-586b-9579-7cace00d1c89
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10357473/v1

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