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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2024

BioASQ Synergy: a dialogue between question-answering systems and biomedical experts for promoting COVID-19 research.

Anastasia Krithara, Anastasios Nentidis, Eirini Vandorou, Georgios Katsimpras, Yannis Almirantis, Magda Arnal, Adomas Bunevicius, Eulalia Farre-Maduell, Maya Kassiss, Vasileios Konstantakos and 8 more

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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18 authors.

Anastasia KritharaInstitute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0491-4507
Anastasios NentidisInstitute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.
Eirini VandorouInstitute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.
Georgios KatsimprasInstitute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.
Yannis AlmirantisInstitute of Biosciences and Applications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.
Magda ArnalDepartment of Biology "Charles Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, Italy.
Adomas BuneviciusLithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas 44307, Lithuania.
Eulalia Farre-MaduellBarcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona 08034, Spain.
Maya KassissNHS Improvement, London SE1 8UG, United Kingdom.
Vasileios KonstantakosInstitute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0332-7506
Sherri Matis-MitchellAstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, DE 19803, United States.
Dimitris PolychronopoulosOchre Bio Ltd, Oxford OX4 4GB, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9427-3082
Jesus Rodriguez-PascualHospital Vithas Madrid la Milagrosa, Madrid 28010, Spain.
Eleftherios G SamarasSt George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, United Kingdom.
Martina SamiotakiInstitute for Bioinnovation, BSRC "Alexander Fleming", Vari 16672, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9952-0636
Despina SanoudouClinical Genomics and Pharmacogenomics Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 12462, Greece.
Aspasia VoziDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 16122, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6363-7162
Georgios PaliourasInstitute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens 15341, Greece.

Funding

CURE-PLaNLeducq Foundation for Cardiovascular ResearchMinistry of Economy and Digital Transformation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis article presents the novel BioASQ Synergy research process which aims to facilitate the interaction between biomedical experts and automated question-answering systems. MATERIALS AND

methodsThe proposed research allows systems to provide answers to emerging questions, which in turn are assessed by experts. The assessment of the experts is fed back to the systems, together with new questions. With this iteration, we aim to facilitate the incremental understanding of a developing problem and contribute to solution discovery.

resultsThe results suggest that the proposed approach can assist researchers to navigate available resources. The experts seem to be very satisfied with the quality of the ideal answers provided by the systems, suggesting that such systems are already useful in answering open research questions. DISCUSSION: BioASQ Synergy aspires to provide a tool that gives the experts easy and personalized access to the latest findings in a fast-growing corpus of material.

conclusionIn this article, we envisioned BioASQ Synergy as a continuous dialogue between experts and systems to issue open questions. We ran an initial proof-of-concept of the approach, in order to evaluate its usefulness, both from the side of the experts, as well as from the side of the participating systems.

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Biomedical ResearchCOVID-19Humansbiomedical expertsbiomedical informationquestion answering

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PMID39180335
PMCPMC11491595

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