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ArticleScientific reports2025

A high precision and speed question answering system about the post-COVID-19.

Ziang Zheng

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. 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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Ziang ZhengCollege of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027, NO.38, China. 22510132@zju.edu.cn.

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Abstract

Coping with the mutation of COVID-19 and potential future pandemic pathogens is crucial in the post-COVID-19 era. The internet's redundant data poses challenges for accurate and timely information retrieval, with current information retrieval systems often neglecting timeliness and speed. This paper proposes a Reader-Retriever architecture to design a question answering system with high accuracy and speed. We employ a distillation and fine-tuning process on a pre-trained model for the Reader pipeline, accomplished via joint training. Additionally, we propose a high-speed search algorithm IVF-PSQ within the Retriever pipeline. The system achieves state-of-the-art results with a Precision of 84.91%, an Exact Match (EM) score of 71.70%, a F1 score of 63.75%, a Recall of 51.04% and an average search time of 0.407 s.

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COVID-19Information Storage and RetrievalAlgorithmsHumansInternetPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Joint trainingPost-COVID-19 eraQuantizationQuestion answering system

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