DoubleTransfer at MEDIQA 2019: Multi-Source Transfer Learning for Natural Language Understanding in the Medical Domain
Yichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Chunyuan Li, Hoifung Poon, Jianfeng Gao
Abstract
This paper describes our competing system to enter the MEDIQA-2019 competition. We use a multi-source transfer learning approach to transfer the knowledge from MT-DNN and SciBERT to natural language understanding tasks in the medical domain. For transfer learning fine-tuning, we use multi-task learning on NLI, RQE and QA tasks on general and medical domains to improve performance. The proposed methods are proved effective for natural language understanding in the medical domain, and we rank the first place on the QA task.- Anthology ID:
- W19-5042
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- BioNLP
- SIG:
- SIGBIOMED
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 399–405
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-5042
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-5042
- Cite (ACL):
- Yichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Chunyuan Li, Hoifung Poon, and Jianfeng Gao. 2019. DoubleTransfer at MEDIQA 2019: Multi-Source Transfer Learning for Natural Language Understanding in the Medical Domain. In Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task, pages 399–405, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- DoubleTransfer at MEDIQA 2019: Multi-Source Transfer Learning for Natural Language Understanding in the Medical Domain (Xu et al., BioNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/W19-5042.pdf
- Data
- GLUE, MedQuAD, MultiNLI