COVID-QA: A Question Answering Dataset for COVID-19

Timo Möller, Anthony Reina, Raghavan Jayakumar, Malte Pietsch


Abstract
We present COVID-QA, a Question Answering dataset consisting of 2,019 question/answer pairs annotated by volunteer biomedical experts on scientific articles related to COVID-19. To evaluate the dataset we compared a RoBERTa base model fine-tuned on SQuAD with the same model trained on SQuAD and our COVID-QA dataset. We found that the additional training on this domain-specific data leads to significant gains in performance. Both the trained model and the annotated dataset have been open-sourced at: https://github.com/deepset-ai/COVID-QA
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2020.nlpcovid19-acl.18
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at ACL 2020
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July
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2020
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Online
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Karin Verspoor, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Mark Dredze, Emilio Ferrara, Jonathan May, Robert Munro, Cecile Paris, Byron Wallace
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NLP-COVID19
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-acl.18
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Timo Möller, Anthony Reina, Raghavan Jayakumar, and Malte Pietsch. 2020. COVID-QA: A Question Answering Dataset for COVID-19. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at ACL 2020, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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COVID-QA: A Question Answering Dataset for COVID-19 (Möller et al., NLP-COVID19 2020)
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Code
 deepset-ai/COVID-QA
Data
SQuAD