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Muhammad Wasim¹, Muhammad Nabeel Asim², Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan³

¹Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, UET, Lahore, Pakistan; Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET, Lahore, Pakistan; Department of Computer Science, UMT Lahore, Sialkot Campus, Pakistan.

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|March 16, 2019

Summary

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Biomedical question classification is challenging due to multi-label questions. A new Label Power Set with logistic regression (LPLR) approach significantly improves multi-label classification accuracy, outperforming existing methods.

Keywords:

Biomedical LAT corpus Biomedical question classification Lexical answer type prediction Multi-label classification

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Informatics
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning

Background:

Question classification is crucial for Question Answering (QA) systems, narrowing search spaces for answers.
Biomedical question classification is particularly challenging due to multi-label nature, where questions can have multiple answer types.
Existing methods for multi-label biomedical questions are limited, with preliminary work using copy transformation.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the challenge of multi-label question classification in the biomedical domain.
To introduce a novel multi-labeled corpus (MLBioMedLAT) for biomedical question classification.
To propose and evaluate a new data transformation approach for multi-label biomedical question classification.

Main Methods:

Generated the MLBioMedLAT corpus using 780 biomedical questions from the BioASQ challenge.
Annotated question semantic type labels by leveraging existing corpora and the Open Advancement of Question Answering (OAQA) system.
Introduced the Label Power Set with logistic regression (LPLR) data transformation technique and compared it with Structured SVM (SSVM), Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and copy transformation based logistic regression (CLR).

Main Results:

The LPLR technique, with a new feature set, achieved superior performance compared to CLR, SSVM, and RBM.
LPLR surpassed CLR by 7%, SSVM by 8%, and RBM by 22% in MicroF1 score.
Evaluation used MicroF1, Accuracy, and Hamming Loss metrics to assess the data transformation technique's integrity.

Conclusions:

The proposed LPLR approach effectively handles multi-label question classification in the biomedical domain.
The MLBioMedLAT corpus provides a valuable resource for advancing biomedical question classification research.
The LPLR technique demonstrates significant improvements over existing methods, paving the way for more accurate biomedical QA systems.