Boosting Low-Resource Biomedical QA via Entity-Aware Masking Strategies (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Biomedical question-answering (QA) provides users with high-quality information from a vast scientific literature. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a biomedical entity-aware masking strategy to fine-tune masked language models to their domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is an adaptation process for masked LMs, not memory or components. |
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