TITLE: What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams 

ABSTRACT: Open domain question answering (OpenQA) tasks have been recently attracting
more and more attention from the natural language processing (NLP) community.
In this work, we present the first free-form multiple-choice OpenQA dataset for
solving medical problems, MedQA, collected from the professional medical board
exams. It covers three languages: English, simplified Chinese, and traditional
Chinese, and contains 12,723, 34,251, and 14,123 questions for the three
languages, respectively. We implement both rule-based and popular neural
methods by sequentially combining a document retriever and a machine
comprehension model. Through experiments, we find that even the current best
method can only achieve 36.7\%, 42.0\%, and 70.1\% of test accuracy on the
English, traditional Chinese, and simplified Chinese questions, respectively.
We expect MedQA to present great challenges to existing OpenQA systems and hope
that it can serve as a platform to promote much stronger OpenQA models from the
NLP community in the future.
Open domain question answering (OpenQA) tasks have been recently attracting
more and more attention from the natural language processing (NLP) community.
In this work, we present the first free-form multiple-choice OpenQA dataset for
solving medical problems, MedQA, collected from the professional medical board
exams. It covers three languages: English, simplified Chinese, and traditional
Chinese, and contains 12,723, 34,251, and 14,123 questions for the three
languages, respectively. We implement both rule-based and popular neural
methods by sequentially combining a document retriever and a machine
comprehension model. Through experiments, we find that even the current best
method can only achieve 36.7\%, 42.0\%, and 70.1\% of test accuracy on the
English, traditional Chinese, and simplified Chinese questions, respectively.
We expect MedQA to present great challenges to existing OpenQA systems and hope
that it can serve as a platform to promote much stronger OpenQA models from the
NLP community in the future.
What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams
http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13081v1