MedicalQA: A dataset of medical domain for machine reading comprehension

Machine reading comprehension aims to make the computer understand the paragraph semantics and answer the questions raised by users using algorithms. The quality of the dataset used in this task can directly affect the experimental results of the model. In order to enrich the medical domain dataset of machine reading comprehension, this paper constructs MedicalQA, a medical domain dataset for machine reading comprehension, employing a combination of web crawlers and manual annotation techniques. The dataset takes two medical platforms (i.e. Xunyiwenyao Network and 39 Health Network) as main data sources, and includes 19,502 paragraphs and Q the second column indicates the department to which the paragraph belongs; the third column contains the paragraph content; the fourth column lists the questions, and the fifth column provides corresponding answers to the questions. The construction of this dataset is conducive to the establishment of machine reading comprehension models in the medical domain, and can also promote the sharing of medical datasets in the field of machine reading comprehension.