---
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  - name: title
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  - name: body
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  - name: response
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  - name: occupation
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  - name: pmcids
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  - name: validation
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  - name: test
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  - split: validation
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  - split: test
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---


# MedRedQA

HuggingFace upload of a QA dataset of questions and responses from qualified medical professionals sourced from [MedRedQA](https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:62454). If used, please cite the original authors using the citation below.

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

The dataset contains three splits:
  - **train**: 40792 questions and responses from a qualified expert
  - **test**: 5099 questions and responses from a qualified expert
  - **validation**: 5100 questions and responses from a qualified expert

### Dataset Sources

- **Repository:** https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:62454
- **Paper:** https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.42/

### Direct Use

```python
import json
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # load only train and validation splits
    medredqa_train, medredqa_eval = load_dataset("bagga005/medredqa", split=["train", "validation"])
    print("# of train:", len(medredqa_train), "# of validation:", len(medredqa_eval))
    
    print("\nmedredqa_train\n", json.dumps(medredqa_train[0], indent=2))
    print("\nmedredqa_eval\n", json.dumps(medredqa_eval[0], indent=2))
```

## License
As per <a href="https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:62454">MedRedQA</a>, this dataset is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Licence</a>
Below paper must be cited when using this dataset

## Citation 

```
@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2023-medredqa,
    title = "{M}ed{R}ed{QA} for Medical Consumer Question Answering: Dataset, Tasks, and Neural Baselines",
    author = "Nguyen, Vincent  and
      Karimi, Sarvnaz  and
      Rybinski, Maciej  and
      Xing, Zhenchang",
    editor = "Park, Jong C.  and
      Arase, Yuki  and
      Hu, Baotian  and
      Lu, Wei  and
      Wijaya, Derry  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Krisnadhi, Adila Alfa",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Nusa Dua, Bali",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.42/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.ijcnlp-main.42",
    pages = "629--648"
}
```