HPI Question Answering System in BioASQ 2016

Abstract

Question answering (QA) systems are crucial when searching for exact answers for natural language questions in the biomedical domain. Answers to many of such questions can be extracted from the 26 millions biomedical publications currently included in MEDLINE when relying on appropriate natural language processing (NLP) tools. In this work we describe our participation in the task 4b of the BioASQ challenge using two QA systems that we developed for biomedicine. Preliminary results show that our systems achieved first and second positions in the snippet retrieval sub-task and for the generation of ideal answers.