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Recognizing Question Entailment for Medical Question Answering 
Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman
AMIA 2016
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1. Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE) Datasets:
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- RQE Training Dataset: A collection of 8,588 clinical question-question pairs.
- RQE Test Dataset: A collection of 302 medical pairs of NLM-questions and NIH-FAQs.


2. License:
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This work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)). 
If you use the RQE datasets, please cite our paper: 

Recognizing Question Entailment for Medical Question Answering. Asma Ben Abacha and Dina Demner-Fushman. AMIA Annual Symposium proceedings, pages 310-318, 2016. 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333286/

         @inproceedings{RQE:AMIA16,
         author    = {Asma {Ben Abacha} and Dina Demner{-}Fushman},
         title     = {Recognizing Question Entailment for Medical Question Answering},
         booktitle = {AMIA 2016, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA, November 12-16, 2016},
         year      = {2016},
         url       = {https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/publication/pub9500},
         abstract = {With the increasing heterogeneity and specialization of medical texts, automated question answering is becoming more and more challenging. In this context, answering a given medical question by retrieving similar questions that are already answered by human experts seems to be a promising solution. In this paper, we propose a new approach for the detection of similar questions based on Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE). In particular, we consider Frequently Asked Question (FAQs) as a valuable and widespread source of information. Our final goal is to automatically provide an existing answer if FAQ similar to a consumer health question exists. We evaluate our approach using consumer health questions received by the National Library of Medicine and FAQs collected from NIH websites. Our first results are promising and suggest the feasibility of our approach as a valuable complement to classic question answering approaches.}}


3. Contact Information:
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Asma Ben Abacha: asma.benabacha AT gmail.com      https://sites.google.com/site/asmabenabacha/