Asma Ben Abacha

On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions

2019

Question understanding is one of the main challenges in question answering. In real world applications, users often submit natural language questions that are longer than needed and include peripheral information that increases the complexity of …

Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering

2019

This paper presents the MEDIQA 2019 shared task organized at the ACL-BioNLP workshop. The shared task is motivated by a need to develop relevant methods, techniques and gold standards for inference and entailment in the …

Consumer health information and question answering: helping consumers find answers to their health-related information needs

2019 · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

OBJECTIVE: Consumers increasingly turn to the internet in search of health-related information; and they want their questions answered with short and precise passages, rather than needing to analyze lists of relevant documents returned by search …