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bigbio_license_shortname: UNKNOWN
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Dataset Card for MedQA Offline
This is an Adaptation of the MedQA Dataset without the need for scripts which are no longer supported by huggingface. Below is the original dataset description:
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://github.com/jind11/MedQA
- Original HF: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigbio/med_qa
- Pubmed: False
- Public: True
- Tasks: QA
In this work, we present the first free-form multiple-choice OpenQA dataset for solving medical problems, MedQA, collected from the professional medical board exams. It covers three languages: English, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese, and contains 12,723, 34,251, and 14,123 questions for the three languages, respectively. Together with the question data, we also collect and release a large-scale corpus from medical textbooks from which the reading comprehension models can obtain necessary knowledge for answering the questions.
Citation Information
@article{jin2021disease,
title={What disease does this patient have? a large-scale open domain question answering dataset from medical exams},
author={Jin, Di and Pan, Eileen and Oufattole, Nassim and Weng, Wei-Hung and Fang, Hanyi and Szolovits, Peter},
journal={Applied Sciences},
volume={11},
number={14},
pages={6421},
year={2021},
publisher={MDPI}
}