Pentagon at MEDIQA 2019: Multi-task Learning for Filtering and Re-ranking Answers using Language Inference and Question Entailment

Hemant Pugaliya, Karan Saxena, Shefali Garg, Sheetal Shalini, Prashant Gupta, Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura

Abstract
Parallel deep learning architectures like fine-tuned BERT and MT-DNN, have quickly become the state of the art, bypassing previous deep and shallow learning methods by a large margin. More recently, pre-trained models from large related datasets have been able to perform well on many downstream tasks by just fine-tuning on domain-specific datasets (similar to transfer learning). However, using powerful models on non-trivial tasks, such as ranking and large document classification, still remains a challenge due to input size limitations of parallel architecture and extremely small datasets (insufficient for fine-tuning). In this work, we introduce an end-to-end system, trained in a multi-task setting, to filter and re-rank answers in the medical domain. We use task-specific pre-trained models as deep feature extractors. Our model achieves the highest Spearman’s Rho and Mean Reciprocal Rank of 0.338 and 0.9622 respectively, on the ACL-BioNLP workshop MediQA Question Answering shared-task.
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W19-5041
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task
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August
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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389–398
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-5041
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-5041
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Hemant Pugaliya, Karan Saxena, Shefali Garg, Sheetal Shalini, Prashant Gupta, Eric Nyberg, and Teruko Mitamura. 2019. Pentagon at MEDIQA 2019: Multi-task Learning for Filtering and Re-ranking Answers using Language Inference and Question Entailment. In Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task, pages 389–398, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Pentagon at MEDIQA 2019: Multi-task Learning for Filtering and Re-ranking Answers using Language Inference and Question Entailment (Pugaliya et al., BioNLP 2019)
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