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Clinical Question Answering (CQA) plays a crucial role in medical decision-making, enabling physicians to extract relevant information from Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). While transformer-based models such as BERT, BioBERT, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Amit Agarwal , Bhargava Kumar , Srikant Panda , Tejaswini Kumar

KBQA is a task that requires to answer questions by using semantic structured information in knowledge base. Previous work in this area has been restricted due to the lack of large semantic parsing dataset and the exponential growth of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Meihao Fan , Lei Zhang , Siyao Xiao , Yuru Liang

The ability of reasoning over evidence has received increasing attention in question answering (QA). Recently, natural language database (NLDB) conducts complex QA in knowledge base with textual evidences rather than structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minjun Zhu , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) systems have the goal of answering complex natural language questions by reasoning over relevant facts retrieved from Knowledge Bases (KB). One of the major challenges faced by these systems is their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nithish Kannen , Udit Sharma , Sumit Neelam , Dinesh Khandelwal , Shajith Ikbal , Hima Karanam , L Venkata Subramaniam

Complex knowledge base question answering can be achieved by converting questions into sequences of predefined actions. However, there is a significant semantic and structural gap between natural language and action sequences, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yechun Tang , Xiaoxia Cheng , Weiming Lu

Recently, several studies have explored methods for using KG embedding to answer logical queries. These approaches either treat embedding learning and query answering as two separated learning tasks, or fail to deal with the variability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gengchen Mai , Krzysztof Janowicz , Bo Yan , Rui Zhu , Ling Cai , Ni Lao

Unstructured clinical notes contain essential patient information but are challenging for physicians to search and interpret efficiently. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in question answering (QA), most existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dina Albassam

Question Answering (QA) systems on patient-related data can assist both clinicians and patients. They can, for example, assist clinicians in decision-making and enable patients to have a better understanding of their medical history.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jayetri Bardhan , Kirk Roberts , Daisy Zhe Wang

Text-based Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task which aims at finding short concrete answers for users' questions. This line of research has been widely studied with information retrieval techniques and has received increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Saeedeh Momtazi

Multi-hop knowledge based question answering (KBQA) is a complex task for natural language understanding. Many KBQA approaches have been proposed in recent years, and most of them are trained based on labeled reasoning path. This hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kechen Qin , Yu Wang , Cheng Li , Kalpa Gunaratna , Hongxia Jin , Virgil Pavlu , Javed A. Aslam

Context-based question answering (CBQA) models provide more accurate and relevant answers by considering the contextual information. They effectively extract specific information given a context, making them functional in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Muhammad Muneeb , David B. Ascher , Ahsan Baidar Bakht

Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-modal challenging task widely considered by research communities of the computer vision and natural language processing. Since most current medical VQA models focus on visual content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Haiwei Pan , Shuning He , Kejia Zhang , Bo Qu , Chunling Chen , Kun Shi

In recent years, there is strong emphasis on mining medical data using machine learning techniques. A common problem is to obtain a noiseless set of textual documents, with a relevant content for the research question, and developing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Christian Internò , Eloisa Ambrosini

Complex question-answering (CQA) involves answering complex natural-language questions on a knowledge base (KB). However, the conventional neural program induction (NPI) approach exhibits uneven performance when the questions have different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuncheng Hua , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Tongtong Wu

The objective of automated Question Answering (QA) systems is to provide answers to user queries in a time efficient manner. The answers are usually found in either databases (or knowledge bases) or a collection of documents commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Krishanu Das Baksi

We introduce PubMedQA, a novel biomedical question answering (QA) dataset collected from PubMed abstracts. The task of PubMedQA is to answer research questions with yes/no/maybe (e.g.: Do preoperative statins reduce atrial fibrillation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Qiao Jin , Bhuwan Dhingra , Zhengping Liu , William W. Cohen , Xinghua Lu

In this paper, we introduce MeDiaQA, a novel question answering(QA) dataset, which constructed on real online Medical Dialogues. It contains 22k multiple-choice questions annotated by human for over 11k dialogues with 120k utterances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Huqun Suri , Qi Zhang , Wenhua Huo , Yan Liu , Chunsheng Guan

We introduce the task of acoustic question answering (AQA) in the area of acoustic reasoning. In this task an agent learns to answer questions on the basis of acoustic context. In order to promote research in this area, we propose a data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jerome Abdelnour , Giampiero Salvi , Jean Rouat

In recent years, the trend of deploying digital systems in numerous industries has hiked. The health sector has observed an extensive adoption of digital systems and services that generate significant medical records. Electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Neel Kanwal , Giuseppe Rizzo

The AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC), a new benchmark dataset for question answering (QA) has been recently released. ARC only contains natural science questions authored for human exams, which are hard to answer and require advanced logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yuyu Zhang , Hanjun Dai , Kamil Toraman , Le Song