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ArticleFrontiers in neurorobotics2022

SentiMedQAer: A Transfer Learning-Based Sentiment-Aware Model for Biomedical Question Answering.

Xian Zhu, Yuanyuan Chen, Yueming Gu, Zhifeng Xiao

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Article in Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Question answering systems for health professionals at the point of care-a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024
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Xian ZhuSchool of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Yuanyuan ChenCentre for Data Science, Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, Macau, China.
Yueming GuSchool of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Zhifeng XiaoSchool of Engineering, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, PA, United States.

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Abstract

Recent advances have witnessed a trending application of transfer learning in a broad spectrum of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including question answering (QA). Transfer learning allows a model to inherit domain knowledge obtained from an existing model that has been sufficiently pre-trained. In the biomedical field, most QA datasets are limited by insufficient training examples and the presence of factoid questions. This study proposes a transfer learning-based sentiment-aware model, named SentiMedQAer, for biomedical QA. The proposed method consists of a learning pipeline that utilizes BioBERT to encode text tokens with contextual and domain-specific embeddings, fine-tunes Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (T5), and RoBERTa models to integrate sentiment information into the model, and trains an XGBoost classifier to output a confidence score to determine the final answer to the question. We validate SentiMedQAer on PubMedQA, a biomedical QA dataset with reasoning-required yes/no questions. Results show that our method outperforms the SOTA by 15.83% and a single human annotator by 5.91%.

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biomedical question answeringRoBERTasentiment analysisT5transfer learningXGBoost

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PMID35360832
PMCPMC8961296

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