Sequence Tagging for Biomedical Extractive Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07535v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:42:34 GMT
• Title: Sequence Tagging for Biomedical Extractive Question Answering
• Authors: Wonjin Yoon, Richard Jackson, Jaewoo Kang, Aron Lagerberg
• Abstract summary: We investigate the difference of the question distribution across the general and biomedical domains. We discover biomedical questions are more likely to require list-type answers (multiple answers) than factoid-type answers (single answer) Our approach can learn to decide the number of answers for a question from training data.
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• Abstract: Current studies in extractive question answering (EQA) have modeled single-span extraction setting, where a single answer span is a label to predict for a given question-passage pair. This setting is natural for general domain EQA as the majority of the questions in the general domain can be answered with a single span. Following general domain EQA models, current biomedical EQA (BioEQA) models utilize single-span extraction setting with post-processing steps. In this paper, we investigate the difference of the question distribution across the general and biomedical domains and discover biomedical questions are more likely to require list-type answers (multiple answers) than factoid-type answers (single answer). In real-world use cases, this emphasizes the need for Biomedical EQA models able to handle multiple question types. Based on this preliminary study, we propose a multi-span extraction setting, namely sequence tagging approach for BioEQA, which directly tackles questions with a variable number of phrases as their answer. Our approach can learn to decide the number of answers for a question from training data. Our experimental result on the BioASQ 7b and 8b list-type questions outperformed the best-performing existing models without requiring post-processing steps.

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