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title = "On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions",
author = "Ben Abacha, Asma and
Demner-Fushman, Dina",
editor = "Korhonen, Anna and
Traum, David and
M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'\i}s",
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year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1215",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1215",
pages = "2228--2234",
abstract = "Question understanding is one of the main challenges in question answering. In real world applications, users often submit natural language questions that are longer than needed and include peripheral information that increases the complexity of the question, leading to substantially more false positives in answer retrieval. In this paper, we study neural abstractive models for medical question summarization. We introduce the MeQSum corpus of 1,000 summarized consumer health questions. We explore data augmentation methods and evaluate state-of-the-art neural abstractive models on this new task. In particular, we show that semantic augmentation from question datasets improves the overall performance, and that pointer-generator networks outperform sequence-to-sequence attentional models on this task, with a ROUGE-1 score of 44.16{\%}. We also present a detailed error analysis and discuss directions for improvement that are specific to question summarization.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1215) (Ben Abacha & Demner-Fushman, ACL 2019)
ACL
- Asma Ben Abacha and Dina Demner-Fushman. 2019. On the Summarization of Consumer Health Questions. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 2228–2234, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.