multilinguality:monolingual language:en license:unknown region:us
The MEDIQA challenge is an ACL-BioNLP 2019 shared task aiming to attract further research efforts in Natural Language Inference (NLI), Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE), and their applications in medical Question Answering (QA).
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bionlp-mediqa

In the QA task, participants are tasked to:
- filter/classify the provided answers (1: correct, 0: incorrect).
- re-rank the answers.
@inproceedings{MEDIQA2019,
  author    = {Asma {Ben Abacha} and Chaitanya Shivade and Dina Demner{-}Fushman},
  title     = {Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering},
  booktitle = {ACL-BioNLP 2019},
  year      = {2019}
}

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- en
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- English
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bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN
pretty_name: MEDIQA QA
homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2019
bigbio_pubmed: False
bigbio_public: True
bigbio_tasks: 
- QUESTION_ANSWERING
---


# Dataset Card for MEDIQA QA

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2019
- **Pubmed:** False
- **Public:** True
- **Tasks:** QA


The MEDIQA challenge is an ACL-BioNLP 2019 shared task aiming to attract further research efforts in Natural Language Inference (NLI), Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE), and their applications in medical Question Answering (QA).
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bionlp-mediqa

In the QA task, participants are tasked to:
- filter/classify the provided answers (1: correct, 0: incorrect).
- re-rank the answers.



## Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{MEDIQA2019,
  author    = {Asma {Ben Abacha} and Chaitanya Shivade and Dina Demner{-}Fushman},
  title     = {Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering},
  booktitle = {ACL-BioNLP 2019},
  year      = {2019}
}

```
