Biodiversity PMC question answering API

Description

This API allows sk questions in natural languages, and to obtain answers extracted from documents from a given collection. The input is a free text question. The output is a set of answers, ranked by scores, along with documents' snippet.

API endpoint

URL: biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/api/QA

Mandatory input: one collection (&col=), amongst "medline" and "plazi"

Mandatory input: a question (&q=) in natural language

Optional input: the number of documents (&n=, default 5) to work with. Each documents asks ~5 seconds of processing.

Example: ask what diseases are transmitted by ticks ? https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/api/QA?q=What%20diseases%20are%20transmitted%20by%20ticks%20?&col=medline

Output

Output is json records of proposed answers.