BioMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension

Dimitris Pappas, Petros Stavropoulos, Ion Androutsopoulos, Ryan McDonald

Abstract
We introduceBIOMRC, 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.
Anthology ID:
2020.bionlp-1.15
Volume:
Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
Venue:
BioNLP
SIG:
SIGBIOMED
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
140–149
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.bionlp-1.15
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.bionlp-1.15
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Cite (ACL):
Dimitris Pappas, Petros Stavropoulos, Ion Androutsopoulos, and Ryan McDonald. 2020. BioMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, pages 140–149, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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BioMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension (Pappas et al., BioNLP 2020)
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Data
BIOMRC, BioASQ, CliCR, Natural Questions
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