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The severe shortage of medical doctors limits access to timely and reliable healthcare, leaving millions underserved. Large language models (LLMs) offer a potential solution but struggle in real-world clinical interactions. Many LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiayuan Zhu , Jiazhen Pan , Yuyuan Liu , Fenglin Liu , Junde Wu

With the rise of knowledge graph (KG), question answering over knowledge base (KBQA) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Despite much research has been conducted on this topic, it is still challenging to apply KBQA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Feng-Lin Li , Weijia Chen , Qi Huang , Yikun Guo

Clinical semantic parsing (SP) is an important step toward identifying the exact information need (as a machine-understandable logical form) from a natural language query aimed at retrieving information from electronic health records…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Sarvesh Soni , Kirk Roberts

Medical question answering systems face deployment challenges including hallucinations, bias, computational demands, privacy concerns, and the need for specialized expertise across diverse domains. Here, we present SOLVE-Med, a multi-agent…

Web question answering (QA) has become an indispensable component in modern search systems, which can significantly improve users' search experience by providing a direct answer to users' information need. This could be achieved by applying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Lixin Su , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

We present Deep Search DocQA. This application enables information extraction from documents via a question-answering conversational assistant. The system integrates several technologies from different AI disciplines consisting of document…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for scalable, interactive mental health assessment, but excessive querying by LLMs burdens users and is inefficient for real-world screening across transdiagnostic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Vasudha Varadarajan , Hui Xu , Rebecca Astrid Boehme , Mariam Marlan Mirstrom , Sverker Sikstrom , H. Andrew Schwartz

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

When caregivers ask open--ended questions to motivate dialogue with children, it facilitates the child's reading comprehension skills.Although there is scope for use of technological tools, referred here as "intelligent tutoring systems",…

Using natural language processing (NLP) technologies to develop medical chatbots makes the diagnosis of the patient more convenient and efficient, which is a typical application in healthcare AI. Because of its importance, lots of research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ke Liang , Sifan Wu , Jiayi Gu

A new clinical literature search engine, called CupQ, is presented. It aims to help clinicians stay updated with medical knowledge. Although PubMed is currently one of the most widely used digital libraries for biomedical information, it…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jesse Wang , Henry Kautz

Community-based Question and Answering (CQA) platforms are nowadays enlightening over a billion people with crowdsourced knowledge. A key design issue in CQA platforms is how to find the potential answerers and to provide the askers timely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xiaoxue Shen , Liyang Gu , Adele Lu Jia

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold promise in addressing complex medical problems. However, while most prior studies focus on improving accuracy and reasoning abilities, a significant bottleneck in developing effective healthcare agents lies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Weikang Qiu , Tinglin Huang , Ryan Rullo , Yucheng Kuang , Ali Maatouk , S. Raquel Ramos , Rex Ying

Question answering over knowledge bases (KB-QA) poses challenges in handling complex questions that need to be decomposed into sub-questions. An important case, addressed here, is that of temporal questions, where cues for temporal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Zhen Jia , Abdalghani Abujabal , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Jannik Stroetgen , Gerhard Weikum

This paper presents a multilayered architecture that enhances the capabilities of current QA systems and allows different types of complex questions or queries to be processed. The answers to these questions need to be gathered from factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Estela Saquete , Jose Luis Vicedo , Patricio Martínez-Barco , Rafael Muñoz , Hector Llorens

Memes have evolved as a prevalent medium for diverse communication, ranging from humour to propaganda. With the rising popularity of image-focused content, there is a growing need to explore its potential harm from different aspects.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Siddhant Agarwal , Shivam Sharma , Preslav Nakov , Tanmoy Chakraborty

We present AliMe Assist, an intelligent assistant designed for creating an innovative online shopping experience in E-commerce. Based on question answering (QA), AliMe Assist offers assistance service, customer service, and chatting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Feng-Lin Li , Minghui Qiu , Haiqing Chen , Xiongwei Wang , Xing Gao , Jun Huang , Juwei Ren , Zhongzhou Zhao , Weipeng Zhao , Lei Wang , Guwei Jin , Wei Chu

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Baidu yield information in the form of a relevant set of web pages according to the need of the user. Question Answering Systems reduce the time taken to get an answer, to a query asked in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Manvi Breja , Sanjay Kumar Jain

With the increasing amount of web information, questions answering systems becomes very important to allow users to access to direct answers for their requests. This paper presents an Arabic Questions Answering Systems based on entailment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Fatima T. AL-Khawaldeh

BACKGROUND: Medical large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in answering medical examinations. However, the extent to which this high performance is transferable to medical questions in Spanish and from a Latin…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco , Jesus Lovón Melgarejo , Manuel Castillo-Cara , Gusseppe Bravo-Rocca