Multi-task Question Generation Based Data Augmentation for Biomedical Answer Generation

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Abstract

Limited by the corpus size and the annotation cost, biomedical question answering (BioQA) is a task of great research value. To generate professional biomedical answers, we first propose a text-to-text multi-task question generation model, which improves the accuracy of domain question generation with two auxiliary tasks. Based on this, a multi-task QA pipeline system with filtering is designed to synthesize high-quality biomedical data. Then, we use three data augmentation strategies to conduct generative BioQA experiments on original and synthetic data. The results on the factoid BioASQ 7b, 8b, and 9b datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications - 19th International Conference, ICIC 2023, Proceedings
EditorsDe-Shuang Huang, Prashan Premaratne, Baohua Jin, Boyang Qu, Kang-Hyun Jo, Abir Hussain
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages485-496
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789819947485
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event19th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2023 - Zhengzhou, China
Duration: 10 Aug 202313 Aug 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14088 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhengzhou
Period10/08/2313/08/23

Keywords

  • Biomedical Answer Generation
  • Data Augmentation
  • Multi-task Learning

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