Classifying Chinese Questions Related to Health Care Posted by Consumers Via the Internet.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In question answering (QA) system development, question classification is crucial for identifying information needs and improving the accuracy of returned answers. Although the questions are domain-specific, they are asked by non-professionals, making the question classification task more challenging.

Authors

  • Haihong Guo
    Institute of Medical Information & Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Xu Na
    Institute of Medical Information & Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Li Hou
    Institute of Medical Information & Library, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Jiao Li
    CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou 510301 China yinhao@scsio.ac.cn.