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We apply a general deep learning framework to address the non-factoid question answering task. Our approach does not rely on any linguistic tools and can be applied to different languages or domains. Various architectures are presented and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Minwei Feng , Bing Xiang , Michael R. Glass , Lidan Wang , Bowen Zhou

The rapidly growth of biomedical literature creates challenges acquiring specific medical information. Current biomedical question-answering systems primarily focus on short-form answers, failing to provide comprehensive explanations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Lovely Yeswanth Panchumarthi , Sumalatha Saleti , Sai Prasad Gudari , Atharva Negi , Praveen Raj Budime , Harsit Upadhya

Clinical question answering systems have the potential to provide clinicians with relevant and timely answers to their questions. Nonetheless, despite the advances that have been made, adoption of these systems in clinical settings has been…

In this work we present Google's submission to the BioASQ 7 biomedical question answering (QA) task (specifically Task 7b, Phase B). The core of our systems are based on BERT QA models, specifically the model of \cite{alberti2019bert}. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Stefan Hosein , Daniel Andor , Ryan McDonald

Biomedical Question Answering aims to obtain an answer to the given question from the biomedical domain. Due to its high requirement of biomedical domain knowledge, it is difficult for the model to learn domain knowledge from limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Yuxuan Lu , Jingya Yan , Zhixuan Qi , Zhongzheng Ge , Yongping Du

Building a deep learning model for a Question-Answering (QA) task requires a lot of human effort, it may need several months to carefully tune various model architectures and find a best one. It's even harder to find different excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Sinan Tan , Hui Xue , Qiyu Ren , Huaping Liu , Jing Bai

We show that the task of question answering (QA) can significantly benefit from the transfer learning of models trained on a different large, fine-grained QA dataset. We achieve the state of the art in two well-studied QA datasets, WikiQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Sewon Min , Minjoon Seo , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

With the rise in mobile and voice search, answer passage retrieval acts as a critical component of an effective information retrieval system for open domain question answering. Currently, there are no comparable collections that address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Daniel Cohen , Liu Yang , W. Bruce Croft

Open Domain Question Answering (QA) is evolving from complex pipelined systems to end-to-end deep neural networks. Specialized neural models have been developed for extracting answers from either text alone or Knowledge Bases (KBs) alone.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Haitian Sun , Bhuwan Dhingra , Manzil Zaheer , Kathryn Mazaitis , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

The last several years have seen intensive interest in exploring neural-network-based models for machine comprehension (MC) and question answering (QA). In this paper, we approach the problems by closely modelling questions in a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Junbei Zhang , Xiaodan Zhu , Qian Chen , Lirong Dai , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

We investigate the problem of cross-dataset adaptation for visual question answering (Visual QA). Our goal is to train a Visual QA model on a source dataset but apply it to another target one. Analogous to domain adaptation for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Wei-Lun Chao , Hexiang Hu , Fei Sha

Medical question answering (QA) systems have the potential to answer clinicians uncertainties about treatment and diagnosis on demand, informed by the latest evidence. However, despite the significant progress in general QA made by the NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Gregory Kell , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace , Andre Jaun

Question Answering (QA) systems are becoming the inspiring model for the future of search engines. While recently, underlying datasets for QA systems have been promoted from unstructured datasets to structured datasets with highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Saeedeh Shekarpour , Denis Lukovnikov , Ashwini Jaya Kumar , Kemele Endris , Kuldeep Singh , Harsh Thakkar , Christoph Lange

ChatGPT explores a strategic blueprint of question answering (QA) in delivering medical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and other healthcare support. This is achieved through the increasing incorporation of medical domain data via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Qing Li , Lei Li , Yu Li

Clinical question answering (QA) aims to automatically answer questions from medical professionals based on clinical texts. Studies show that neural QA models trained on one corpus may not generalize well to new clinical texts from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Xiang Yue , Xinliang Frederick Zhang , Ziyu Yao , Simon Lin , Huan Sun

Biomedical summarization requires large datasets to train for text generation. We show that while transfer learning offers a viable option for addressing this challenge, an in-domain pre-training does not always offer advantages in a BioASQ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dima Galat , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Question Answering (QA) is a natural language processing task that aims at obtaining relevant answers to user questions. While some progress has been made in this area, biomedical questions are still a challenge to most QA approaches, due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Andre Lamurias , Diana Sousa , Francisco M. Couto

Answering questions related to the legal domain is a complex task, primarily due to the intricate nature and diverse range of legal document systems. Providing an accurate answer to a legal query typically necessitates specialized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Bhawna Piryani , Adam Jatowt

The amount of publicly available biomedical literature has been growing rapidly in recent years, yet question answering systems still struggle to exploit the full potential of this source of data. In a preliminary processing step, many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Ferenc Galkó , Carsten Eickhoff

Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Athira P. M. , Sreeja M. , P. C. Reghu Raj