Transfer Learning for Biomedical Question Answering
Transfer Learning for Biomedical Question Answering
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2020
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Arda Akdemir;T. Shibuya
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Arda Akdemir;T. Shibuya
. Deep Neural Network (DNN) based Machine Learning models achieved remarkable success in many fields of research. Yet, many recent studies show the limitations of these approaches to generalize to unseen examples and to new domains such as the biomedical domain. Besides, supervised-learning based DNN models require a substantial amount of labeled data which is not readily available for many tasks such as the biomedical question answering task. Transfer Learning is shown to mitigate these challenges by transferring information from auxiliary tasks to improve the performance on a source task, and shown to be especially useful for low-resource tasks. These observations and findings motivated us to investigate the effect of transfer learning and multi-task learning on the biomedical question answering task. We proposed a novel multi-task learning model to learn biomedical entities and questions simultaneously. In this work, we explain the three different neural models we used to participate for the BioASQ 8B challenge. Our initial results showed that transferring information from the biomedical entity recognition task brings improvement for the biomedical question answering task.