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Supervised approach to recognize question type in a QA system for health.

Sarah Cruchet1, Arnaud Gaudinat, Célia Boyer

  • 1Health On the Net Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.

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|May 20, 2008
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A new bilingual question answering (QA) system for health information has been developed. It effectively identifies the expected answer type, but needs improvement for medical context classification.

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Area of Science:

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Health Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Existing question answering (QA) systems lack specific applications in the health domain.
  • A robust QA system for health information is needed to address this gap.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a bilingual (French/English) question answering system tailored for the health domain.
  • To enhance the Question Analyzer module for improved question model detection.

Main Methods:

  • Questions were collected from the internet and expert-classified based on answer type and medical context.
  • Supervised and non-supervised classification algorithms were tested, with Support Vector Machines (SVM) showing the best performance.
  • The system's performance was evaluated for accuracy in categorizing question types.

Main Results:

  • The system achieved high accuracy in identifying the expected answer type (84% in English, 68% in French).
  • Classification accuracy for the medical type was below 50%, indicating a need for improvement.
  • Evaluations confirmed the system's strength in answer type identification but highlighted limitations in medical context classification.

Conclusions:

  • The developed QA system demonstrates proficiency in classifying expected answer types within the health domain.
  • Future enhancements will incorporate the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic network to improve medical context categorization.
  • Further development is required to fully address the nuances of medical domain classification in QA systems.