In this paper, we address the task of open-domain health question answering (QA). The quality of existing QA systems heavily depends on the annotated data that is often difficult to obtain, especially in the medical domain. To tackle this issue, we opt for PubMed and Wikipedia as trustworthy document collections to retrieve evidence. The questions and retrieved passages are passed to off-the-shelf question answering models, whose predictions are then aggregated into a final score. Thus, our proposed approach is highly data-efficient. Evaluation on 113 health-related yes/no question and answer pairs demonstrates good performance achieving AUC of 0.82.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Subtitle of host publicationbook
EditorsJaap Kamps, Lorraine Goeuriot
PublisherSpringer Cham
ChapterChapter 48
Pages571-579
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-28238-6
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-28237-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Mar 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13981
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Theoretical Computer Science

    WoS ResearchAreas Categories

  • Chemistry, Physical
  • Nuclear Science & Technology
  • Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical

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