Biomedical question answering: a survey of approaches and challenges

Q Jin, Z Yuan, G Xiong, Q Yu, H Ying, C Tan… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
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 …

An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition

G Tsatsaronis, G Balikas, P Malakasiotis, I Partalas… - BMC …, 2015 - Springer
Background This article provides an overview of the first BioASQ challenge, a competition
on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took …

Retrieval augmentation reduces hallucination in conversation

K Shuster, S Poff, M Chen, D Kiela, J Weston - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Despite showing increasingly human-like conversational abilities, state-of-the-art dialogue
models often suffer from factual incorrectness and hallucination of knowledge (Roller et al …

Evaluating open-domain question answering in the era of large language models

E Kamalloo, N Dziri, CLA Clarke, D Rafiei - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Lexical matching remains the de facto evaluation method for open-domain question
answering (QA). Unfortunately, lexical matching fails completely when a plausible candidate …

Sparse, dense, and attentional representations for text retrieval

Y Luan, J Eisenstein, K Toutanova… - Transactions of the …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Dual encoders perform retrieval by encoding documents and queries into dense low-
dimensional vectors, scoring each document by its inner product with the query. We …

How to approach ambiguous queries in conversational search: A survey of techniques, approaches, tools, and challenges

K Keyvan, JX Huang - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine
interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …

Unik-qa: Unified representations of structured and unstructured knowledge for open-domain question answering

B Oguz, X Chen, V Karpukhin, S Peshterliev… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We study open-domain question answering with structured, unstructured and semi-
structured knowledge sources, including text, tables, lists and knowledge bases. Departing …

Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language

AC Graesser, DS McNamara, MM Louwerse… - … methods, instruments, & …, 2004 - Springer
Advances in computational linguistics and discourse processing have made it possible to
automate many language-and text-processing mechanisms. We have developed a …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on question answering systems with classification

A Mishra, SK Jain - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Question answering systems (QASs) generate answers of questions asked in natural
languages. Early QASs were developed for restricted domains and have limited capabilities …

[图书][B] Handbook of research on educational communications and technology: a project of the association for educational communications and technology

D Jonassen, MJ Spector, M Driscoll, MD Merrill… - 2008 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …