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How Good is Artificial Intelligence at Automatically Answering Consumer Questions Related to Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, comprising
60-80% of cases. There were an estimated 5.8 million Americans living with
Alzheimer's dementia in 2019, and this number will almost double every 20
years. The total lifetime cost of care for someone with dementia is estimated
to be $350,174 in 2018, 70% of which is associated with family-provided care.
Most family caregivers face emotional, financial and physical difficulties. As
a medium to relieve this burden, online communities in social media websites
such as Twitter, Reddit, and Yahoo! Answers provide potential venues for
caregivers to search relevant questions and answers, or post questions and seek
answers from other members. However, there are often a limited number of
relevant questions and responses to search from, and posted questions are
rarely answered immediately. Due to recent advancement in Artificial
Intelligence (AI), particularly Natural Language Processing (NLP), we propose
to utilize AI to automatically generate answers to AD-related consumer
questions posted by caregivers and evaluate how good AI is at answering those
questions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in the
literature applying and evaluating AI models designed to automatically answer
consumer questions related to AD