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language:

• en bigbio_language:
• English license: unknown multilinguality: monolingual bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN pretty_name: MEDIQA QA homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2019 bigbio_pubmed: False bigbio_public: True bigbio_tasks:
• QUESTION_ANSWERING

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Dataset Card for MEDIQA QA

Dataset Description

• Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2019
• Pubmed: False
• Public: True
• Tasks: QA

The MEDIQA challenge is an ACL-BioNLP 2019 shared task aiming to attract further research efforts in Natural Language Inference (NLI), Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE), and their applications in medical Question Answering (QA). Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bionlp-mediqa

In the QA task, participants are tasked to:

• filter/classify the provided answers (1: correct, 0: incorrect).
• re-rank the answers.

Citation Information

@inproceedings{MEDIQA2019,
  author    = {Asma {Ben Abacha} and Chaitanya Shivade and Dina Demner{-}Fushman},
  title     = {Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering},
  booktitle = {ACL-BioNLP 2019},
  year      = {2019}
}