metadata

language:
  - en
bigbio_language:
  - English
license: other
multilinguality: monolingual
bigbio_license_shortname: NLM_LICENSE
pretty_name: BioASQ Task B
homepage: http://participants-area.bioasq.org/datasets/
bigbio_pubmed: true
bigbio_public: false
bigbio_tasks:
  - QUESTION_ANSWERING

Dataset Card for BioASQ Task B

Dataset Description

Homepage: http://participants-area.bioasq.org/datasets/
Pubmed: True
Public: False
Tasks: QA

The BioASQ corpus contains multiple question answering tasks annotated by biomedical experts, including yes/no, factoid, list, and summary questions. Pertaining to our objective of comparing neural language models, we focus on the the yes/no questions (Task 7b), and leave the inclusion of other tasks to future work. Each question is paired with a reference text containing multiple sentences from a PubMed abstract and a yes/no answer. We use the official train/dev/test split of 670/75/140 questions.

See 'Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing'

Citation Information

@article{tsatsaronis2015overview,
    title        = {
        An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and
        question answering competition
    },
    author       = {
        Tsatsaronis, George and Balikas, Georgios and Malakasiotis, Prodromos
        and Partalas, Ioannis and Zschunke, Matthias and Alvers, Michael R and
        Weissenborn, Dirk and Krithara, Anastasia and Petridis, Sergios and
        Polychronopoulos, Dimitris and others
    },
    year         = 2015,
    journal      = {BMC bioinformatics},
    publisher    = {BioMed Central Ltd},
    volume       = 16,
    number       = 1,
    pages        = 138
}