Epidemic Question Answering: question generation and entailment for Answer Nugget discovery.
The rapidly growing body of communications during the COVID-19 pandemic posed a challenge to information seekers, who struggled to find answers to their specific and changing information needs. We designed a Question Answering (QA) system capable of answering ad-hoc questions about the COVID-19 disease, its causal virus SARS-CoV-2, and the recommended response to the pandemic.
Author(s): Weinzierl, Maxwell A, Harabagiu, Sanda M
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac222