HHH-An-Online-Question-Answering-System-for-Medical-Questions
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HBAM: Hierarchical Bi-directional Word Attention Model
HBDA-An-Online-Question-Answering-System-for-Medical-Questions
System description
The system can be divided into two parts. The first part is the knowledge graph question answering and the second part is if the knowledge graph cannot find the answer of the user inputted question, the second part will help to retrieve the top k most related answers by computing the medical question similarity from a medical question answer pair dataset.
Here are some useful reference links.
Knowledge graph establishment refer the following link
https://github.com/liuhuanyong/QASystemOnMedicalKG
Google English words pre-train model: GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin.gz
The pre-train model will be used to load word embedding before training the BiLSTM+Attention model and HBDA model.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7XkCwpI5KDYNlNUTTlSS21pQmM/edit?usp=sharing
BERT
https://github.com/google-research/bert
BiLSTM+Attention
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/31638132
https://github.com/likejazz/Siamese-LSTM
https://github.com/LuJunru/Sentences_Pair_Similarity_Calculation_Siamese_LSTM
AttentionLayer is referred from the following link
https://github.com/uhauha2929/examples/blob/master/Hierarchical%20Attention%20Networks%20.ipynb
Dataset
Medical knowledge dataset collected from the following medical website
https://www.medicinenet.com/medterms-medical-dictionary/article.htm
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/a-to-z
Model train_dev_test dataset are filter out the medical related questions from Quora question pair dataset.
https://data.quora.com/First-Quora-Dataset-Release-Question-Pairs
Medical question and answer pair dataset is referred from the following link.
https://github.com/LasseRegin/medical-question-answer-data
Model eval-accuracy comparison
The total number of medical related data from Quora dataset is nearly 70000, but we randomly pick the 10000 as the (train/dev/test) dataset.
The number distribution of train: dev: test = 6:2:2
Model | Average Eval_accuracy by three times | Range of change |
---|---|---|
BERT baseline model | 0.7686 | (-0.0073, +0.0057) |
HDBA model | 0.8146 | (-0.0082, +0.0098) |
Bi-LSTM + Attention model | 0.8043 | (-0.0103, +0.0062) |
The scale of knowledge graph about 700 diseases. For each disease, there exists symptom, accompany_disease, prevent_way, cure_way and totally 6 entities.

System architecture

Web GUI manager

Siamese Hierarchical BiLSTM Word Attention Manhattan Distance model

Reference papers
Hierarchical attention networks for document classification (https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N16-1174)
Siamese Recurrent Architectures for Learning Sentence Similarity (https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI16/paper/viewPaper/12195)
Disease symptom entity extraction & User intention recognition

Knowledge graph answer selection

Question_answer_pair_answer_selection

Paper link
Citation
@inproceedings{bao2020hhh,
title={HHH: An Online Medical Chatbot System based on Knowledge Graph and Hierarchical Bi-Directional Attention},
author={Bao, Qiming and Ni, Lin and Liu, Jiamou},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference},
pages={1--10},
year={2020}
}
Acknowledgement
This research was supported by summer scholarship funding from the Precision Driven Health research partnership.