Optimal Question Selection from a Large Question Bank for Clinical Field Recovery in Conversational Psychiatric Intake

ArXi:2604.22067v1 Announce Type: cross Psychiatric intake is a sequential, high-stakes information-gathering process in which clinicians must decide what to ask, in what order, and how to interpret incomplete or ambiguous responses under. Despite growing interest in conversational AI for healthcare, there is still limited infrastructure for conversational AI in this application. Accordingly, we formulate this task as a question-selection problem with clinically grounded questions, known target information, and controllable patient difficulty. We also.