Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis

Halil Kilicoglu; Marcelo Fiszman; Dina Demner-Fushman

Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis

Halil Kilicoglu, Marcelo Fiszman, Dina Demner-Fushman

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Abstract

While interest in biomedical question answering has been growing, research in consumer health question answering remains relatively sparse. In this paper, we focus on the task of consumer health question understanding. We present a rule-based methodology that relies on lexical and syntactic information as well as anaphora/ellipsis resolution to construct structured representations of questions (frames). Our results indicate the viability of our approach and demonstrate the important role played by anaphora and ellipsis in interpreting consumer health questions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	BioNLP 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Proceedings of the Workshop
Editors	Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, John Pestian, Jun'ichi Tsujii
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	54-62
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781937284541
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2013 at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria Duration: Aug 8 2013 → …

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)	0736-587X

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Conference	2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2013 at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013
Country/Territory	Bulgaria
City	Sofia
Period	8/8/13 → …

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Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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Kilicoglu, H., Fiszman, M., & Demner-Fushman, D. (2013). Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis. In K. B. Cohen, D. Demner-Fushman, S. Ananiadou, J. Pestian, & J. Tsujii (Eds.), BioNLP 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Proceedings of the Workshop (pp. 54-62). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis. / Kilicoglu, Halil; Fiszman, Marcelo; Demner-Fushman, Dina.
BioNLP 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Proceedings of the Workshop. ed. / Kevin Bretonnel Cohen; Dina Demner-Fushman; Sophia Ananiadou; John Pestian; Jun'ichi Tsujii. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013. p. 54-62 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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Kilicoglu, H, Fiszman, M & Demner-Fushman, D 2013, Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis. in KB Cohen, D Demner-Fushman, S Ananiadou, J Pestian & J Tsujii (eds), BioNLP 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Proceedings of the Workshop. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 54-62, 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2013 at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, 8/8/13.

Kilicoglu H, Fiszman M, Demner-Fushman D. Interpreting consumer health questions: The role of anaphora and ellipsis. In Cohen KB, Demner-Fushman D, Ananiadou S, Pestian J, Tsujii J, editors, BioNLP 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Proceedings of the Workshop. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2013. p. 54-62. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

Kilicoglu, Halil ; Fiszman, Marcelo ; Demner-Fushman, Dina. / Interpreting consumer health questions : The role of anaphora and ellipsis. BioNLP 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Proceedings of the Workshop. editor / Kevin Bretonnel Cohen ; Dina Demner-Fushman ; Sophia Ananiadou ; John Pestian ; Jun'ichi Tsujii. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013. pp. 54-62 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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