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 …

Recent progress in leveraging deep learning methods for question answering

T Hao, X Li, Y He, FL Wang, Y Qu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2022 - Springer
Question answering, serving as one of important tasks in natural language processing,
enables machines to understand questions in natural language and answer the questions …

Pubmedqa: A dataset for biomedical research question answering

Q Jin, B Dhingra, Z Liu, WW Cohen, X Lu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06146, 2019 - arxiv.org
We introduce PubMedQA, a novel biomedical question answering (QA) dataset collected
from PubMed abstracts. The task of PubMedQA is to answer research questions with …

BioSentVec: creating sentence embeddings for biomedical texts

Q Chen, Y Peng, Z Lu - 2019 IEEE International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sentence embeddings have become an essential part of today's natural language
processing (NLP) systems, especially together advanced deep learning methods. Although …

[HTML][HTML] ScienceQA: a novel resource for question answering on scholarly articles

T Saikh, T Ghosal, A Mittal, A Ekbal… - International Journal on …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) of a document is a challenging problem
that requires discourse-level understanding. Information extraction from scholarly articles …

Sequence tagging for biomedical extractive question answering

W Yoon, R Jackson, A Lagerberg, J Kang - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Current studies in extractive question answering (EQA) have modeled the single-
span extraction setting, where a single answer span is a label to predict for a given question …

Supplementing domain knowledge to BERT with semi-structured information of documents

J Chen, Z Wei, J Wang, R Wang, C Gong… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Domain adaptation is a good way to boost BERT's performance on domain-specific
natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Common domain adaptation methods, however …

Evaluation of Question Answering Systems: Complexity of judging a natural language

A Farea, Z Yang, K Duong, N Perera… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Question answering (QA) systems are among the most important and rapidly developing
research topics in natural language processing (NLP). A reason, therefore, is that a QA …

Biomedical question answering: A survey of methods and datasets

Z Kaddari, Y Mellah, J Berrich… - … Computing in Data …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thousands of biomedical research papers are published each day. Now, it takes more time
than ever for researchers and healthcare information professionals to find relevant …

[HTML][HTML] SentiMedQAer: a transfer learning-based sentiment-aware model for biomedical question answering

X Zhu, Y Chen, Y Gu, Z Xiao - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances have witnessed a trending application of transfer learning in a broad
spectrum of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including question answering (QA) …