A cascaded retrieval-while-reasoning multi-document comprehension framework with incremental attention for medical question answering

Jiandong Liu, Jianfeng Ren, Ruibin Bai, Zibo Zhang, Zheng Lu

Abstract: Highlights•A RwR pipeline is proposed to solve multi-document medical MRC tasks.•The proposed RwR could solve different questions with different networks.•The proposed Incremental Attention part can extract intra- and inter-document attention.•The proposed method outperform SOTA openQA medical MRC models.