Preliminary evaluation of question answering to support biological curation

Dr. Mariana Neves Hasso-Plattner Institut, Potsdam, Germany E-mail: marianalaraneves@gmail.com Question answering (QA) is the task of posing queries in natural language (e.g., English) to information systems and receiving an exact answer in return. As opposed to search engines (e.g., PubMed), in QA systems, a query can be expressed as a question and a short answer to it is returned, instead of a list of potential relevant documents. We have explored the suitability of QA systems to support biocurators in finding specific information from the scientific literature. Motivation