Abstract
In recent years, medical Question Answering (QA) systems have gained a lot of attentions, since they can not only help professionals make quick decisions, but also give ordinary people advice when they seek for helpful information. However, the interpretability and accuracy problems have plagued QA systems for a long time. In this paper, we propose a QA system, DSQA, based on knowledge graph for answering domain-specific medical questions. The data we use are from Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) that are complex and heterogeneous with varied qualities. We introduce doctor-in-the-loop mechanism to design the knowledge graph, which improves the interpretability and the accuracy of our QA system. For every natural-language question, we generate the answer with a hybrid of the traditional deep learning model and the reasoning on the knowledge graph. Finally, the answer is returned to the user in the format of a subgraph with corresponding natural-language sentences. Our system shows high interpretability and gives excellent performance according to the experiment results.
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This work was supported by NSFC (91646202), National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFB1404401, 2018YFB1402701).
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Sheng, M. et al. (2020). DSQA: A Domain Specific QA System for Smart Health Based on Knowledge Graph. In: Wang, G., Lin, X., Hendler, J., Song, W., Xu, Z., Liu, G. (eds) Web Information Systems and Applications. WISA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12432. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60029-7_20
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