TY - GEN
T1 - Querying across genres for medical claims in news
AU - Zuo, Chaoyuan
AU - Acharya, Narayan
AU - Banerjee, Ritwik
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We present a query-based biomedical information retrieval task across two vastly different genres - newswire and research literature - where the goal is to find the research publication that supports the primary claim made in a health-related news article. For this task, we present a new dataset of 5,034 claims from news paired with research abstracts. Our approach consists of two steps: (i) selecting the most relevant candidates from a collection of 222k research abstracts, and (ii) re-ranking this list. We compare the classical IR approach using BM25 with more recent transformer-based models. Our results show that cross-genre medical IR is a viable task, but incorporating domain-specific knowledge is crucial.
AB - We present a query-based biomedical information retrieval task across two vastly different genres - newswire and research literature - where the goal is to find the research publication that supports the primary claim made in a health-related news article. For this task, we present a new dataset of 5,034 claims from news paired with research abstracts. Our approach consists of two steps: (i) selecting the most relevant candidates from a collection of 222k research abstracts, and (ii) re-ranking this list. We compare the classical IR approach using BM25 with more recent transformer-based models. Our results show that cross-genre medical IR is a viable task, but incorporating domain-specific knowledge is crucial.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85118466380
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.139
DO - 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.139
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118466380
T3 - EMNLP 2020 - 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 1783
EP - 1789
BT - EMNLP 2020 - 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2020
Y2 - 16 November 2020 through 20 November 2020
ER -