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doc-compass-labels

id stringlengths 9 9	primary stringclasses 12 values	alternate stringclasses 12 values	urgency stringclasses 2 values	ambiguous bool 2 classes
t_ctrb06c	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_eafr6g4	Start with a GP	null	routine	false
t_drz1ixk	Cardiology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_cghgqjy	ENT	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_do3q6ve	Start with a GP	null	routine	false
t_dqd4bpe	Neurology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_ecvv9u8	Cardiology	null	soon	false
t_f9i4lge	ENT	Neurology	routine	false
t_ecls7cc	Neurology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_ghn48dw	Urology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cwwvr4n	ENT	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cktrrpb	Mental health	null	routine	false
t_fbdm1j5	Start with a GP	Orthopedics	soon	true
t_cwbpbmg	Orthopedics	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_eauq34v	Orthopedics	null	routine	false
t_dmv3u1t	Start with a GP	Gastroenterology	routine	false
t_ec5oedz	Eye care	Neurology	routine	false
t_ebs5g21	Start with a GP	null	routine	false
t_dmzn9mo	Start with a GP	Dentistry	soon	true
t_cxg3c9h	Mental health	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_dai4ybt	ENT	null	routine	false
t_eb9cypd	Urology	null	routine	false
t_dbp9x2j	Orthopedics	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_dbeag14	Eye care	null	routine	false
t_chnd5po	Eye care	Neurology	routine	false
t_fc9iv21	Dentistry	ENT	routine	false
t_cli8j6g	Eye care	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_eaidgrt	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cuicg6s	Orthopedics	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_ggug8ji	Mental health	null	routine	false
t_domy5yc	Dermatology	null	routine	false
t_fagalu9	Mental health	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cizdn8p	Cardiology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_cm69eno	Start with a GP	ENT	routine	false
t_dbe35e0	Mental health	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_dozqpt5	Eye care	null	routine	false
t_daujuvs	ENT	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cvfnfpq	Neurology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_f933i93	Dermatology	null	routine	false
t_ecwgw93	ENT	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_dmr9zb7	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_fana8oo	Cardiology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_e9rx44w	Urology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_eb8x2i2	Orthopedics	null	soon	false
t_clmf1vv	Start with a GP	null	routine	false
t_ci24kc1	Start with a GP	Cardiology	soon	true
t_cibleb1	ENT	null	routine	false
t_dnu6xp4	Start with a GP	Cardiology	soon	true
t_cg5gli5	ENT	Dentistry	routine	false
t_cfgovqj	Start with a GP	Cardiology	routine	false
t_dbosmn9	Mental health	null	routine	false
t_dpdme5w	Urology	null	routine	false
t_dqe3xl8	ENT	null	soon	false
t_cju6tw6	Dermatology	Urology	routine	false
t_cwpk8d8	Orthopedics	Neurology	soon	false
t_j0kig9p	Urology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_dbtf6yw	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_drdd8vo	Start with a GP	Cardiology	soon	false
t_daapgns	Dermatology	null	routine	false
t_dqnf8sn	Ob-Gyn	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_cmyvqn5	ENT	null	soon	false
t_ghgupu0	Ob-Gyn	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_dp994q0	Ob-Gyn	null	routine	false
t_e9ja5bc	ENT	null	routine	false
t_d9p1fpl	Start with a GP	Gastroenterology	routine	false
t_cl1ux1e	Start with a GP	Ob-Gyn	routine	true
t_dp2mwwk	Gastroenterology	Dentistry	routine	false
t_cvnbh2v	Ob-Gyn	null	routine	false
t_cjkc3sw	Neurology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_cy3sa22	Orthopedics	null	routine	false
t_cvat486	Neurology	null	soon	false
t_dmxd8oi	Cardiology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_dnuma29	Start with a GP	Cardiology	routine	true
t_cilwo2a	Ob-Gyn	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_doirnfo	Start with a GP	Mental health	routine	true
t_ecj2qnr	Gastroenterology	Dentistry	routine	false
t_cxejkk9	Start with a GP	null	routine	false
t_dpn89nk	Orthopedics	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cwz8rvd	ENT	null	routine	false
t_cm65btk	Orthopedics	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_dnh17m5	Ob-Gyn	null	routine	false
t_fasc27j	Start with a GP	null	soon	false
t_cmi36uk	Ob-Gyn	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cih3y0t	Cardiology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_cj7ocwg	Neurology	null	soon	false
t_izam2id	Mental health	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_ci976l4	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cyfzu5c	Dermatology	null	routine	false
t_doyc691	Eye care	null	soon	false
t_cxfw5b6	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	soon	false
t_cld2mwj	Gastroenterology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_cjr8omf	Mental health	null	soon	false
t_fafi40g	Neurology	null	soon	false
t_cm7glk7	Cardiology	Start with a GP	routine	false
t_ecxqeec	Start with a GP	Neurology	soon	true
t_daogays	Orthopedics	null	routine	false
t_fa2k3lx	Orthopedics	null	soon	false
t_cjk54v3	Gastroenterology	null	soon	false
t_cmc6313	ENT	Dentistry	routine	false
t_ck1b4lm	Orthopedics	Start with a GP	routine	false

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Doc Compass routing labels

Which kind of doctor to book, for 734 real patient posts from r/AskDocs. These are the labels used to train and test the Doc Compass router (CMU 24-679, Project 1, Akshara N.S. and Sohum Goel).

Post ids and labels only, no post text. The posts are real people's health questions, so we do not redistribute them. The text comes from stellalisy/MediQ_AskDocs; scripts/prepare_data.py in the GitHub repo downloads it and joins it to these ids.

Fields

Field	Values
`id`	The post's MediQ_AskDocs id root (the part of MediQ's `id` before the first `-`)
`primary`	The kind of doctor to book: one of 11 specialties or `Start with a GP`. In the `emergency` split it is `Emergency`; in `skip` it is `Skip`
`alternate`	Optional second label that would also be reasonable
`urgency`	`routine`, `soon` or `emergency`; empty for Skip
`ambiguous`	`True` when the labeller couldn't really decide

The 11 specialties: Dermatology, Orthopedics, ENT, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Urology, Ob-Gyn, Mental health, Cardiology, Eye care, Dentistry. What each covers is in docs/label-set.md.

Splits

Split	Posts	How it's drawn
`train`	362	Mostly posts a router trained on public data rated likely for each label, so rare specialties have examples, plus random posts
`validation`	50	Random posts only, fixed in advance, so it has the same label mix as test
`test`	115	A plain random sample
`emergency`	54	Labelled Emergency: kept out of the router, used to test the emergency check
`skip`	153	Not a "which doctor" question (medication or lab-result questions, already under a specialist)

Splits are by post; no post is in two splits.

How the data was made

Posts: MediQ_AskDocs real posts (10,366 unique after removing repeats; its synthetic folder is skipped). Reddit handles and links removed; posts of 25–400 words kept; 734 drawn with a fixed seed (24679).
Labels: drafted by an AI assistant from a written guideline (the label scopes and 22 published emergency warning signs from MedlinePlus and the CDC) and reviewed by the authors.
No augmentation of these posts. The public set used for stage-1 training (Patient Comments and Specialist Types, Mendeley Data, CC BY 4.0) is separate and not included here.

Exploratory data analysis

Label	Train	Validation	Test	Total
Start with a GP	88	22	47	157
ENT	42	2	10	54
Gastroenterology	29	6	11	46
Neurology	29	2	14	45
Orthopedics	27	3	9	39
Ob-Gyn	27	6	6	39
Dermatology	28	1	5	34
Urology	22	3	5	30
Eye care	29	0	1	30
Mental health	20	2	1	23
Cardiology	14	2	5	21
Dentistry	7	1	1	9
Total	362	50	115	527

Split	Posts	Words per post, median (IQR)	Range	Ambiguous	With an alternate	Urgency
train	362	130 (95–209)	27–394	31	211	235 routine, 127 soon
validation	50	150 (111–237)	52–398	1	38	28 routine, 22 soon
test	115	153 (102–215)	28–395	9	103	65 routine, 50 soon
emergency	54	155 (102–222)	51–373	44	40	54 emergency
skip	153	134 (84–214)	28–385	0	0	–

What stands out:

"Start with a GP" dominates: 30% of all routable posts, 41% of test. Any router has to beat "always answer GP" (40.9% top-1 on test).
Rare labels: Dentistry has 9 posts in total, and Eye care, Mental health and Dentistry have one test post each, so per-label test scores for them mean little.
Train is shaped, validation and test are not: the targeted draw gives train more rare-specialty posts than real posts have, which is why Eye care is 29 in train but 1 in test.
21% of the drawn posts (153 of 734) are Skip: many AskDocs posts are not a which-doctor question.
Emergency is over-labelled: the guideline said to choose Emergency when unsure, and 44 of the 54 are marked ambiguous.

Licence and terms

These labels: CC BY-NC 4.0.
The posts are MediQ_AskDocs (MIT on its dataset card) and were written by Reddit users; Reddit's terms restrict training models on its content. We used the researcher-released dataset and did not scrape Reddit. Non-commercial use only.

Intended use and limits

For: training and testing which-doctor routing on patient-written text, in coursework and research.
Not for: diagnosis, triage or emergency detection, or any decision about a real person's care.
Limits: the labels are not clinically validated, and there is no inter-annotator agreement score. English only; r/AskDocs posters are self-selected, posted 2013–2021, and the routing assumes US outpatient care.
Ethics: don't try to identify the people who wrote these posts, and don't quote posts verbatim.

Full data card: docs/data-card.md
Results on these splits: docs/routing-results.md
Trained router: akshara-ns/doc-compass

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