MedMCQA: A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering

Ankit Pal, Logesh Kumar Umapathi, Malaikannan Sankarasubbu
Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning, PMLR 174:248-260, 2022.

Abstract

This paper introduces MedMCQA, a new large-scale, Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions. More than 194k high-quality AIIMS & NEET PG entrance exam MCQs covering 2.4k healthcare topics and 21 medical subjects are collected with an average token length of 12.77 and high topical diversity. Each sample contains a question, correct answer(s), and other options which requires a deeper language understanding as it tests the 10+ reasoning abilities of a model across a wide range of medical subjects & topics. A detailed explanation of the solution, along with the above information, is provided in this study.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v174-pal22a, title = {MedMCQA: A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering}, author = {Pal, Ankit and Umapathi, Logesh Kumar and Sankarasubbu, Malaikannan}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning}, pages = {248--260}, year = {2022}, editor = {Flores, Gerardo and Chen, George H and Pollard, Tom and Ho, Joyce C and Naumann, Tristan}, volume = {174}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {07--08 Apr}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v174/pal22a/pal22a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v174/pal22a.html}, abstract = {This paper introduces MedMCQA, a new large-scale, Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions. More than 194k high-quality AIIMS & NEET PG entrance exam MCQs covering 2.4k healthcare topics and 21 medical subjects are collected with an average token length of 12.77 and high topical diversity. Each sample contains a question, correct answer(s), and other options which requires a deeper language understanding as it tests the 10+ reasoning abilities of a model across a wide range of medical subjects & topics. A detailed explanation of the solution, along with the above information, is provided in this study.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T MedMCQA: A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering %A Ankit Pal %A Logesh Kumar Umapathi %A Malaikannan Sankarasubbu %B Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2022 %E Gerardo Flores %E George H Chen %E Tom Pollard %E Joyce C Ho %E Tristan Naumann %F pmlr-v174-pal22a %I PMLR %P 248--260 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v174/pal22a.html %V 174 %X This paper introduces MedMCQA, a new large-scale, Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions. More than 194k high-quality AIIMS & NEET PG entrance exam MCQs covering 2.4k healthcare topics and 21 medical subjects are collected with an average token length of 12.77 and high topical diversity. Each sample contains a question, correct answer(s), and other options which requires a deeper language understanding as it tests the 10+ reasoning abilities of a model across a wide range of medical subjects & topics. A detailed explanation of the solution, along with the above information, is provided in this study.
APA
Pal, A., Umapathi, L.K. & Sankarasubbu, M.. (2022). MedMCQA: A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering. Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 174:248-260 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v174/pal22a.html.

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