language:
- en
bigbio_language:
- English
license: unknown
multilinguality: monolingual
bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN
pretty_name: BIOMRC
homepage: https://github.com/PetrosStav/BioMRC_code
bigbio_pubmed: true
bigbio_public: true
bigbio_tasks:
- QUESTION_ANSWERING
Dataset Card for BIOMRC
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://github.com/PetrosStav/BioMRC_code
- Pubmed: True
- Public: True
- Tasks: QA
We introduce BIOMRC, a large-scale cloze-style biomedical MRC dataset. Care was taken to reduce noise, compared to the previous BIOREAD dataset of Pappas et al. (2018). Experiments show that simple heuristics do not perform well on the new dataset and that two neural MRC models that had been tested on BIOREAD perform much better on BIOMRC, indicating that the new dataset is indeed less noisy or at least that its task is more feasible. Non-expert human performance is also higher on the new dataset compared to BIOREAD, and biomedical experts perform even better. We also introduce a new BERT-based MRC model, the best version of which substantially outperforms all other methods tested, reaching or surpassing the accuracy of biomedical experts in some experiments. We make the new dataset available in three different sizes, also releasing our code, and providing a leaderboard.
Citation Information
@inproceedings{pappas-etal-2020-biomrc,
title = "{B}io{MRC}: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension",
author = "Pappas, Dimitris and
Stavropoulos, Petros and
Androutsopoulos, Ion and
McDonald, Ryan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.bionlp-1.15",
pages = "140--149",
}