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title = "{UNCC} {QA}: Biomedical Question Answering system",
author = "Bhandwaldar, Abhishek and
Zadrozny, Wlodek",
editor = "Kakadiaris, Ioannis A. and
Paliouras, George and
Krithara, Anastasia",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th {B}io{ASQ} Workshop A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering",
month = nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Brussels, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-5308",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5308",
pages = "66--71",
abstract = "In this paper, we detail our submission to the BioASQ competition{'}s Biomedical Semantic Question and Answering task. Our system uses extractive summarization techniques to generate answers and has scored highest ROUGE-2 and Rogue-SU4 in all test batch sets. Our contributions are named-entity based method for answering factoid and list questions, and an extractive summarization techniques for building paragraph-sized summaries, based on lexical chains. Our system got highest ROUGE-2 and ROUGE-SU4 scores for ideal-type answers in all test batch sets. We also discuss the limitations of the described system, such lack of the evaluation on other criteria (e.g. manual). Also, for factoid- and list -type question our system got low accuracy (which suggests that our algorithm needs to improve in the ranking of entities).",
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%T UNCC QA: Biomedical Question Answering system
%A Bhandwaldar, Abhishek
%A Zadrozny, Wlodek
%Y Kakadiaris, Ioannis A.
%Y Paliouras, George
%Y Krithara, Anastasia
%S Proceedings of the 6th BioASQ Workshop A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
%D 2018
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
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%P 66-71
Markdown (Informal)
[UNCC QA: Biomedical Question Answering system](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5308) (Bhandwaldar & Zadrozny, BioASQ 2018)
ACL
- Abhishek Bhandwaldar and Wlodek Zadrozny. 2018. UNCC QA: Biomedical Question Answering system. In Proceedings of the 6th BioASQ Workshop A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering, pages 66–71, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.