emrQA: A Large Corpus for Question Answering on Electronic Medical Records
Authors
Authors
- Anusri Pampari
- Preethi Raghavan
- Jennifer Liang
- Jian Peng
emrQA: A Large Corpus for Question Answering on Electronic Medical Records
We propose a novel methodology to generate domain-specific large-scale question answering (QA) datasets by re-purposing existing annotations for other NLP tasks. We demonstrate an instance of this methodology in generating a large-scale QA dataset for electronic medical records by leveraging existing expert annotations on clinical notes for various NLP tasks from the community shared i2b2 datasets. The resulting corpus (emrQA) has 1 million question-logical form and 400,000+ question-answer evidence pairs. We characterize the dataset and explore its learning potential by training baseline models for question to logical form and question to answer mapping.
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@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1809-00732,
author = {Anusri Pampari and
Preethi Raghavan and
Jennifer J. Liang and
Jian Peng},
title = {emrQA: {A} Large Corpus for Question Answering on Electronic Medical
Records},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/1809.00732},
year = {2018},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00732},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {1809.00732},
timestamp = {Tue, 04 Jun 2019 21:08:34 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-1809-00732.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}