title: "medquades"

description: "Spanish version of MEDQUAD datset with 15869 questions-answers. The original MedQuAD includes 47,457 medical question-answer pairs created from 12 NIH websites (e.g. cancer.gov, niddk.nih.gov, GARD, MedlinePlus Health Topics). The collection covers 37 question types (e.g. Treatment, Diagnosis, Side Effects) associated with diseases, drugs and other medical entities such as tests."

language: 
- es

tags:
- QA
- medical
- spanish

citation: |
  "A Question-Entailment Approach to Question Answering". Asma Ben Abacha and Dina Demner-Fushman. BMC Bioinformatics, 2019.
  
  @ARTICLE{BenAbacha-BMC-2019,
    author    = {Asma {Ben Abacha} and Dina Demner{-}Fushman},
    title     = {A Question-Entailment Approach to Question Answering},
    journal   = {{BMC} Bioinform.},
    volume    = {20},
    number    = {1},
    pages     = {511:1--511:23},
    year      = {2019},
    url       = {https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-019-3119-4}
  }

# License
license: |
  The MedQuAD dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

# Contact
contact: |
  castilloclaudiosebastian@gmail.com
  
task_categories:
- question-answering