Dataset Card for FrenchMedMCQA : A French Multiple-Choice Question Answering Corpus for Medical domain

Dataset Summary

This paper introduces FrenchMedMCQA, the first publicly available Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset in French for medical domain. It is composed of 3,105 questions taken from real exams of the French medical specialization diploma in pharmacy, mixing single and multiple answers.

Each instance of the dataset contains an identifier, a question, five possible answers and their manual correction(s).

We also propose first baseline models to automatically process this MCQA task in order to report on the current performances and to highlight the difficulty of the task. A detailed analysis of the results showed that it is necessary to have representations adapted to the medical domain or to the MCQA task: in our case, English specialized models yielded better results than generic French ones, even though FrenchMedMCQA is in French. Corpus, models and tools are available online.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA)

Languages

The questions and answers are available in French.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
    "id": "1863462668476003678",
    "question": "Parmi les propositions suivantes, laquelle (lesquelles) est (sont) exacte(s) ? Les chylomicrons plasmatiques :",
    "answers": {
        "a": "Sont plus riches en cholestérol estérifié qu'en triglycérides",
        "b": "Sont synthétisés par le foie",
        "c": "Contiennent de l'apolipoprotéine B48",
        "d": "Contiennent de l'apolipoprotéine E",
        "e": "Sont transformés par action de la lipoprotéine lipase"
    },
    "correct_answers": [
        "c",
        "d",
        "e"
    ],
    "subject_name": "pharmacie",
    "type": "multiple"
}

Data Fields

• id : a string question identifier for each example
• question : question text (a string)
• answer_a : Option A
• answer_b : Option B
• answer_c : Option C
• answer_d : Option D
• answer_e : Option E
• correct_answers : Correct options, i.e., A, D and E
• choice_type ({"single", "multiple"}): Question choice type.
  • "single": Single-choice question, where each choice contains a single option.
  • "multiple": Multi-choice question, where each choice contains a combination of multiple options.

Data Splits

# Answers	Training	Validation	Test	Total
1	595	164	321	1,080
2	528	45	97	670
3	718	71	141	930
4	296	30	56	382
5	34	2	7	43
Total	2171	312	622	3,105

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The questions and their associated candidate answer(s) were collected from real French pharmacy exams on the remede website. Questions and answers were manually created by medical experts and used during examinations. The dataset is composed of 2,025 questions with multiple answers and 1,080 with a single one, for a total of 3,105 questions. Each instance of the dataset contains an identifier, a question, five options (labeled from A to E) and correct answer(s). The average question length is 14.17 tokens and the average answer length is 6.44 tokens. The vocabulary size is of 13k words, of which 3.8k are estimated medical domain-specific words (i.e. a word related to the medical field). We find an average of 2.49 medical domain-specific words in each question (17 % of the words) and 2 in each answer (36 % of the words). On average, a medical domain-specific word is present in 2 questions and in 8 answers.

Personal and Sensitive Information

The corpora is free of personal or sensitive information.

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

The dataset was created by Labrak Yanis and Bazoge Adrien and Dufour Richard and Daille Béatrice and Gourraud Pierre-Antoine and Morin Emmanuel and Rouvier Mickael.

Licensing Information

Apache 2.0

Citation Information

If you find this useful in your research, please consider citing the dataset paper :

@inproceedings{labrak-etal-2022-frenchmedmcqa,
    title = "{F}rench{M}ed{MCQA}: A {F}rench Multiple-Choice Question Answering Dataset for Medical domain",
    author = "Labrak, Yanis  and
      Bazoge, Adrien  and
      Dufour, Richard  and
      Daille, Beatrice  and
      Gourraud, Pierre-Antoine  and
      Morin, Emmanuel  and
      Rouvier, Mickael",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.louhi-1.5",
    pages = "41--46",
    abstract = "This paper introduces FrenchMedMCQA, the first publicly available Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset in French for medical domain. It is composed of 3,105 questions taken from real exams of the French medical specialization diploma in pharmacy, mixing single and multiple answers. Each instance of the dataset contains an identifier, a question, five possible answers and their manual correction(s). We also propose first baseline models to automatically process this MCQA task in order to report on the current performances and to highlight the difficulty of the task. A detailed analysis of the results showed that it is necessary to have representations adapted to the medical domain or to the MCQA task: in our case, English specialized models yielded better results than generic French ones, even though FrenchMedMCQA is in French. Corpus, models and tools are available online.",
}

Contact

Thanks to contact Yanis LABRAK for more information about this dataset.