Ontology-Based Retrieval & Neural Approaches for BioASQ Ideal Answer Generation

Ashwin Naresh Kumar, Harini Kesavamoorthy, Madhura Das, Pramati Kalwad, Khyathi Chandu, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg


Abstract
The ever-increasing magnitude of biomedical information sources makes it difficult and time-consuming for a human researcher to find the most relevant documents and pinpointed answers for a specific question or topic when using only a traditional search engine. Biomedical Question Answering systems automatically identify the most relevant documents and pinpointed answers, given an information need expressed as a natural language question. Generating a non-redundant, human-readable summary that satisfies the information need of a given biomedical question is the focus of the Ideal Answer Generation task, part of the BioASQ challenge. This paper presents a system for ideal answer generation (using ontology-based retrieval and a neural learning-to-rank approach, combined with extractive and abstractive summarization techniques) which achieved the highest ROUGE score of 0.659 on the BioASQ 5b batch 2 test.
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W18-5310
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Proceedings of the 6th BioASQ Workshop A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
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November
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, George Paliouras, Anastasia Krithara
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BioASQ
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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79–89
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10.18653/v1/W18-5310
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Ashwin Naresh Kumar, Harini Kesavamoorthy, Madhura Das, Pramati Kalwad, Khyathi Chandu, Teruko Mitamura, and Eric Nyberg. 2018. Ontology-Based Retrieval & Neural Approaches for BioASQ Ideal Answer Generation. In Proceedings of the 6th BioASQ Workshop A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering, pages 79–89, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Ontology-Based Retrieval & Neural Approaches for BioASQ Ideal Answer Generation (Naresh Kumar et al., BioASQ 2018)
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