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An Answer Validation Concept Based Approach for Question Answering in Biomedical Domain

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Modern Advances in Applied Intelligence (IEA/AIE 2014)

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With the continuously growing literatures in the biomedical domain, it is not feasible for researchers to manually go through all information for answering questions. The task of making knowledge contained in texts in forms that machines can use for automated processing is more and more important. This paper describes a system to answer multiple-choice questions for the biomedical domain while reading a given document. In this study, we use the data from the pilot task “machine reading of biomedical texts about Alzheimer’s disease” which is a task of the Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation (QA4MRE) Lab at CLEF 2012. We adapt the concept of answer validation that assumes the over-generation hypotheses will be checked in the validation step. In the following, the query expansion technique “global analysis” is applied. The best result is 0.51 c@1 score which is clearly above the baseline at CLEF 2012 and shows an exhilarating performance.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, No.88, Section 4, Ting-Chou Road, Taipei, 116, Taiwan, R.O.C

    Wen-Juan Hou & Bing-Han Tsai

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Texas State University, TX 78666, San Marcos, USA

    Moonis Ali

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, No. 415, Chien Kung Road, 80778, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Jeng-Shyang Pan

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shyi-Ming Chen

  4. Department of Electronics Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC)

    Mong-Fong Horng

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Hou, WJ., Tsai, BH. (2014). An Answer Validation Concept Based Approach for Question Answering in Biomedical Domain. In: Ali, M., Pan, JS., Chen, SM., Horng, MF. (eds) Modern Advances in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07455-9_16

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