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Question answering (QA) has achieved promising progress recently. However, answering a question in real-world scenarios like the medical domain is still challenging, due to the requirement of external knowledge and the insufficient quantity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sheng Shen , Yaliang Li , Nan Du , Xian Wu , Yusheng Xie , Shen Ge , Tao Yang , Kai Wang , Xingzheng Liang , Wei Fan

Question Answering (QA) is a task that entails reasoning over natural language contexts, and many relevant works augment language models (LMs) with graph neural networks (GNNs) to encode the Knowledge Graph (KG) information. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jinyoung Park , Hyeong Kyu Choi , Juyeon Ko , Hyeonjin Park , Ji-Hoon Kim , Jisu Jeong , Kyungmin Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

We present LinkQ, a system that leverages a large language model (LLM) to facilitate knowledge graph (KG) query construction through natural language question-answering. Traditional approaches often require detailed knowledge of a graph…

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We present a refined approach to biomedical question-answering (QA) services by integrating large language models (LLMs) with Multi-BERT configurations. By enhancing the ability to process and prioritize vast amounts of complex biomedical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Cheng Qian , Xianglong Shi , Shanshan Yao , Yichen Liu , Fengming Zhou , Zishu Zhang , Junaid Akram , Ali Braytee , Ali Anaissi

Can language models (LM) ground question-answering (QA) tasks in the knowledge base via inherent relational reasoning ability? While previous models that use only LMs have seen some success on many QA tasks, more recent methods include…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yujie Lu , Siqi Ouyang , Kairui Zhou

Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Question-answering (QA) that comes naturally to humans is a critical component in seamless human-computer interaction. It has emerged as one of the most convenient and natural methods to interact with the web and is especially desirable in…

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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

Patients are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) with medical questions that are complex and difficult to articulate clearly. However, LLMs are sensitive to prompt phrasings and can be influenced by the way questions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hye Sun Yun , Geetika Kapoor , Michael Mackert , Ramez Kouzy , Wei Xu , Junyi Jessy Li , Byron C. Wallace

Automatic Question Answering (QA) has been successfully applied in various domains such as search engines and chatbots. Biomedical QA (BQA), as an emerging QA task, enables innovative applications to effectively perceive, access and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Qiao Jin , Zheng Yuan , Guangzhi Xiong , Qianlan Yu , Huaiyuan Ying , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Songfang Huang , Xiaozhong Liu , Sheng Yu

A question-answering (QA) system is to search suitable answers within a knowledge base. Current QA systems struggle with queries requiring complex reasoning or real-time knowledge integration. They are often supplemented with retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sizhe Yuen , Ting Su , Ziyang Wang , Yali Du , Adam J. Sobey

Effective patient care in digital healthcare requires large language models (LLMs) that not only answer questions but also actively gather critical information through well-crafted inquiries. This paper introduces HealthQ, a novel framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Ziyu Wang , Hao Li , Di Huang , Hye-Sung Kim , Chae-Won Shin , Amir M. Rahmani

Large language models (LLMs) perform well in medical QA, but their effectiveness in Japanese contexts is limited due to privacy constraints that prevent the use of commercial models like GPT-4 in clinical settings. As a result, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yingjian Chen , Feiyang Li , Xingyu Song , Tianxiao Li , Zixin Xu , Xiujie Chen , Issey Sukeda , Irene Li

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) for healthcare question answering requires robust methods to ensure accuracy and reliability. This work introduces Query-Based Retrieval Augmented Generation (QB-RAG), a framework for enhancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Eric Yang , Jonathan Amar , Jong Ha Lee , Bhawesh Kumar , Yugang Jia

Question answering (QA) aims to understand questions and find appropriate answers. In real-world QA systems, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) based QA is usually a practical and effective solution, especially for some complicated questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruobing Xie , Yanan Lu , Fen Lin , Leyu Lin

In the face of rapidly expanding online medical literature, automated systems for aggregating and summarizing information are becoming increasingly crucial for healthcare professionals and patients. Large Language Models (LLMs), with their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Niraj Yagnik , Jay Jhaveri , Vivek Sharma , Gabriel Pila

This thesis work falls within the framework of question answering (QA) in the biomedical domain where several specific challenges are addressed, such as specialized lexicons and terminologies, the types of treated questions, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Mourad Sarrouti

While conversing with chatbots, humans typically tend to ask many questions, a significant portion of which can be answered by referring to large-scale knowledge graphs (KG). While Question Answering (QA) and dialog systems have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Amrita Saha , Vardaan Pahuja , Mitesh M. Khapra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Sarath Chandar

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a promising approach to robust and explainable Question Answering (QA). While LLMs excel at natural language understanding, they suffer from knowledge gaps and hallucinations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jasper Linders , Jakub M. Tomczak

Clinical problem-solving requires processing of semantic medical knowledge such as illness scripts and numerical medical knowledge of diagnostic tests for evidence-based decision-making. As large language models (LLMs) show promising…