“Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) requires the machine to answer complex questions by find-ing scattering clues and reasoning from multiple documents. Graph Network (GN) and Ques-tion Decomposition (QD) are two common approaches at present. The former uses the “black-box” reasoning process to capture the potential relationship between entities and sentences, thusachieving good performance. At the same time, the latter provides a clear reasoning logical routeby decomposing multi-hop questions into simple single-hop sub-questions. In this paper, wepropose a novel method to complete multi-hop QA from the perspective of Question Genera-tion (QG). Specifically, we carefully design an end-to-end QG module on the basis of a classicalQA module, which could help the model understand the context by asking inherently logicalsub-questions, thus inheriting interpretability from the QD-based method and showing superiorperformance. Experiments on the HotpotQA dataset demonstrate that the effectiveness of ourproposed QG module, human evaluation further clarifies its interpretability quantitatively, andthorough analysis shows that the QG module could generate better sub-questions than QD meth-ods in terms of fluency, consistency, and diversity.”

“Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a natural, safe, and effective therapy that has spread and been applied worldwide. The unique TCM diagnosis and treatment system requires a comprehensive analysis of a patient’s symptoms hidden in the clinical record written in free text. Prior studies have shown that this system can be informationized and intelligentized with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, such as natural language processing (NLP). However, existing datasets are not of sufficient quality nor quantity to support the further development of data-driven AI technology in TCM. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the core task of the TCM diagnosis and treatment system—syndrome differentiation (SD)—and we introduce the first public large-scale benchmark for SD, called TCM-SD. Our benchmark contains 54,152 real-world clinical records covering 148 syndromes. Furthermore, we collect a large-scale unlabelled textual corpus in the field of TCM and propose a domain-specific pre-trained language model, called ZYBERT. We conducted experiments using deep neural networks to establish a strong performance baseline, reveal various challenges in SD, and prove the potential of domain-specific pre-trained language model. Our study and analysis reveal opportunities for incorporating computer science and linguistics knowledge to explore the empirical validity of TCM theories.”