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BanglaMed-QA: A Question Answering System for Healthcare Support in Bangla

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

Medical question answering (QA) systems have become crucial tools for providing reliable health information. But they remain very unexplored for low-resource languages like Bangla due to limited datasets and systems tailored to these languages. To address this, we introduce BanglaMed-QA, a robust QA system specifically designed for the Bangla medical domain. The process begins with building a structured medical knowledge base that includes 4,493 QA pairs in 9 categories under 506 diseases. To improve semantic comprehension, domain-specific root word dictionaries and synonym sets are proposed,

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