# MedDialog-CN

License: unverifiable (NOASSERTION); Mdexa hosting: pending. License unverifiable: The only license information is on a Hugging Face page whose account cannot be shown to belong to the publisher (third-party mirror, secondhand); no first-hand statement; link only until resolved.

- Commercial use: Unclear · Derivatives: Unclear · Redistribution: Unclear · File on Mdexa: No
- License status: Unverifiable (NOASSERTION)
- Mdexa hosting: Pending — License unverifiable: The only license information is on a Hugging Face page whose account cannot be shown to belong to the publisher (third-party mirror, secondhand); no first-hand statement; link only until resolved.
- Source risk: Scraped, Real patient text
- Last verified: 2026-11-12
- Card: https://mdexa.com/datasets/meddialog-cn/

## Key facts

- Domain: Clinical medicine
- Content type: QA, dialogue and instruction data
- Size: 3,400,000 dialogues (claimed) (paper, Chinese); 1,921,127 dialogues (HF mirror raw zh); ≈3,400,000 dialogues (HF mirror processed.zh) — 论文称中文340万条对话；HF 镜像 raw zh 1,921,127条，processed.zh 约340万条
- Language: Chinese
- Modality: Text
- Publisher: UCSD-AI4H（EMNLP 2020 论文）
- Year: 2020

## Commercial use of MedDialog-CN

- Commercial use: Unclear (Unverified).
- License status: Unverifiable.
Verdicts record what sources state and are not legal advice.

## MedDialog-CN license evidence

The only license information is on a Hugging Face page whose account cannot be shown to belong to the publisher (third-party mirror, secondhand); no first-hand statement

- **Hugging Face card metadata** — NOASSERTION: Hugging Face dataset card license field — "unknown" — https://huggingface.co/datasets/UCSD26/medical_dialog (2026-11-12; Page opened; second-hand, not verified)
- **Hugging Face card text**: Dataset card copyright statement — "All copyrights of the data belong to haodf.com." — https://huggingface.co/datasets/UCSD26/medical_dialog (2026-11-12; Page opened; second-hand, not verified)

## Source and lineage

Scraped from haodf.com (好大夫在线)
- Based on: haodf.com (好大夫在线)

## Known issues with MedDialog-CN

- Copyright belongs to the source website
- The card notes that the English source site's terms prohibit scraping
- GitHub repository UCSD-AI4H/Medical-Dialogue-System returned 404 this time
- Source risk: dialogues were scraped from haodf.com (website scraping) and are real doctor-patient conversations (real patient text)
- The Hugging Face account hosting the data cannot be shown to be the publisher; its license information is treated as secondhand

## Preflight

Not run (data not ingested).

## Downloading MedDialog-CN and API access

Mdexa does not serve files. Original source:
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/UCSD26/medical_dialog

## Citing MedDialog-CN

No recommended citation text.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://mdexa.com/datasets/meddialog-cn.json
- 2026-11-13 Added specialty tags: multi-specialty(inferred).
- 2026-11-13 Removed the stored size-tier tag; the tier is now computed from the size field when pages are built.
- 2026-11-13 Added dataset-level tags: 3 (2 stated by the authors with excerpts, 1 inferred from the content). No conclusion changed.
- 2026-11-12 License status changed from restricted to unverifiable and hosting from link-only to pending: third-party mirror pages are secondhand; secondhand evidence alone cannot support restricted.
- 2026-11-12 Added verbatim license excerpts and snapshot ids from captured page snapshots; no conclusion changed.
- 2026-11-12 License status split into license_status (what the license says) and hosting (what Mdexa does); the earlier conclusion is kept for traceability.
- 2026-11-12 Card converted from an earlier manual catalog; no new facts added; reclassified under taxonomy v2.

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