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PubTator 3.0 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/pubtator3/) is a biomedical literature resource using state-of-the-art AI techniques to offer semantic and relation searches for key concepts like proteins, genetic variants, diseases, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chih-Hsuan Wei , Alexis Allot , Po-Ting Lai , Robert Leaman , Shubo Tian , Ling Luo , Qiao Jin , Zhizheng Wang , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu

Multi-hop question answering (QA) remains a significant challenge in the biomedical domain, requiring systems to integrate information across multiple sources to answer complex questions. To address this problem, the BioCreative IX MedHopQA…

The recent success of question answering systems is largely attributed to pre-trained language models. However, as language models are mostly pre-trained on general domain corpora such as Wikipedia, they often have difficulty in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Wonjin Yoon , Jinhyuk Lee , Donghyeon Kim , Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang

Despite the excitement behind biomedical artificial intelligence (AI), access to high-quality, diverse, and large-scale data - the foundation for modern AI systems - is still a bottleneck to unlocking its full potential. To address this…

Medical question answering (QA) is a reasoning-intensive task that remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) due to hallucinations and outdated domain knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) provides a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xuanzhao Dong , Wenhui Zhu , Hao Wang , Xiwen Chen , Peijie Qiu , Rui Yin , Yi Su , Yalin Wang

The sheer volume of financial statements makes it difficult for humans to access and analyze a business's financials. Robust numerical reasoning likewise faces unique challenges in this domain. In this work, we focus on answering deep…

Medical tasks such as diagnosis and treatment planning require precise and complex reasoning, particularly in life-critical domains. Unlike mathematical reasoning, medical reasoning demands meticulous, verifiable thought processes to ensure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Juncheng Wu , Wenlong Deng , Xingxuan Li , Sheng Liu , Taomian Mi , Yifan Peng , Ziyang Xu , Yi Liu , Hyunjin Cho , Chang-In Choi , Yihan Cao , Hui Ren , Xiang Li , Xiaoxiao Li , Yuyin Zhou

Despite the rapid progress in multihop question-answering (QA), models still have trouble explaining why an answer is correct, with limited explanation training data available to learn from. To address this, we introduce three explanation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Harsh Jhamtani , Peter Clark

This paper presents a new selection-based question answering dataset, SelQA. The dataset consists of questions generated through crowdsourcing and sentence length answers that are drawn from the ten most prevalent topics in the English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Tomasz Jurczyk , Michael Zhai , Jinho D. Choi

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), and specifically automated Question Answering (QA) systems, have demonstrated both impressive linguistic fluency and a pernicious tendency to reflect social biases. In this study, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Cécile Logé , Emily Ross , David Yaw Amoah Dadey , Saahil Jain , Adriel Saporta , Andrew Y. Ng , Pranav Rajpurkar

In the last few years, open-domain question answering (ODQA) has advanced rapidly due to the development of deep learning techniques and the availability of large-scale QA datasets. However, the current datasets are essentially designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiexin Wang , Adam Jatowt , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Medical reasoning in large language models (LLMs) aims to emulate clinicians' diagnostic thinking, but current benchmarks such as MedQA-USMLE, MedMCQA, and PubMedQA often mix reasoning with factual recall. We address this by separating 11…

This paper introduces QAConv, a new question answering (QA) dataset that uses conversations as a knowledge source. We focus on informative conversations, including business emails, panel discussions, and work channels. Unlike open-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Chien-Sheng Wu , Andrea Madotto , Wenhao Liu , Pascale Fung , Caiming Xiong

We present a new dataset for chart question answering (CQA) constructed from visualization notebooks. The dataset features real-world, multi-view charts paired with natural language questions grounded in analytical narratives. Unlike prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha

We present a new dataset for Visual Question Answering (VQA) on document images called DocVQA. The dataset consists of 50,000 questions defined on 12,000+ document images. Detailed analysis of the dataset in comparison with similar datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

We introduce MilkQA, a question answering dataset from the dairy domain dedicated to the study of consumer questions. The dataset contains 2,657 pairs of questions and answers, written in the Portuguese language and originally collected by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Marcelo Criscuolo , Erick Rocha Fonseca , Sandra Maria Aluísio , Ana Carolina Sperança-Criscuolo

Community-based Question Answering (CQA) sites play an important role in addressing health information needs. However, a significant number of posted questions remain unanswered. Automatically answering the posted questions can provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-05 Papis Wongchaisuwat , Diego Klabjan , Siddhartha R. Jonnalagadda

Medical Question Answering~(medical QA) systems play an essential role in assisting healthcare workers in finding answers to their questions. However, it is not sufficient to merely provide answers by medical QA systems because users might…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wei Sun , Mingxiao Li , Damien Sileo , Jesse Davis , Marie-Francine Moens

Biomedical question answering (QA) requires accurate interpretation of complex medical knowledge. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in this domain, with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems enhancing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingpeng Ning , Yuanyuan Sun , Ling Luo , Yanhua Wang , Yuchen Pan , Hongfei Lin

Scientific Literature charts often contain complex visual elements, including multi-plot figures, flowcharts, structural diagrams and etc. Evaluating multimodal models using these authentic and intricate charts provides a more accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lingdong Shen , Qigqi , Kun Ding , Gaofeng Meng , Shiming Xiang