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    Identifying Similar Questions in the Medical Domain Using a Fine-tuned Siamese-BERT Model
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022) Merchant, A.; Shenoy, N.; Bharali, A.; Anand Kumar, A.M.
    A large number of people search about their health related problems on the web. However, the number of sites with qualified and verified people answering their queries is quite low in comparison to the number of questions being put up. The rate of queries being searched on such sites has further increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main reason people find it difficult to find solutions to their queries is due to ineffective identification of semantically similar questions in the medical domain. For most cases, answers to the queries people ask would be present, the only caveat being the question may be present in a different form than the one asked by the particular user. In this research, we propose a Siamese-based BERT model to detect similar questions using a fine-tuning approach. The network is fine-tuned with medical question-answer pairs and then with question-question pairs to get a better question similarity prediction. © 2022 IEEE.
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    fastText-Based Siamese Network for Hindi Semantic Textual Similarity
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025) Chandrashekar, A.; Rushad, M.; Nambiar, A.; Rashmi, V.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Semantic textual similarity is a measurement of the degree of similarity or equivalence between two sentences semantically. Semantic sentence pairs have the ability to substitute text from each other and retain their meaning. Various rule-based and machine learning models have gained quick prominence in the field, especially in a language like English, where there is an abundance of lexical tools and resources. However, other languages like Hindi have not seen much improvement in state-of-the-art methods and models to evaluate semantic similarity of text data. This paper proposes a fastText-based Siamese neural network architecture to evaluate the semantic equivalency between a Hindi sentence pair. The pair is scored on a scale of 0–5, where 0 indicates least similar and 5 indicates most similar. The corpus contains a combination of two datasets containing manually scored sentence pairs. The performance parameters used to evaluate this approach are model accuracy and model loss over a training period of multiple epochs. The proposed architecture incorporates a fastText-based embedding layer and a bi-directional Long Short Term Memory layer to achieve a similarity score. The proposed architecture can extract semantic and various global features of the text to determine a similarity score. This model achieves an accuracy of 85.5% on a compiled Hindi-Hindi sentence pair dataset, which is a considerable improvement over existing rule and supervise-based systems. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.