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. 2005:2005:1102.

Question analysis for biomedical question answering

Carl Sable  1 , Minsuk Lee, Hai Ran Zhu, Hong Yu
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Question analysis for biomedical question answering

Carl Sable et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005.

Abstract

We are developing a biomedical question answering system. This paper describes our system's architecture and our question analysis component. Specifically, we have explored the use of various supervised machine learning approaches to filter out unanswerable questions based on physicians' annotations.

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