Share this article Share this article HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (hereafter "Ping An" or the "Group", HKEX: 2318; SSE: 601318) is pleased to announce that AskBob Doctor, a consultation and treatment assistance tool, has ranked first in one of the three tasks in MEDIQA 2021, an artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare question-and-answer contest hosted by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This achievement confirms Ping An's world-leading research capability in natural language processing (NLP) in the healthcare industry, which is a key driver of Ping An's healthcare ecosystem. ACL is one of the most authoritative international academic institutions in the NLP field. The MEDIQA 2021 competition tests the performance of competitors' algorithms on the automatic summarization of medical text with three tasks: consumer health question summarization, multi-answer summarization (MAS), and radiology report summarization. Ping An's AskBob Doctor ranked first in the MAS task, tackling the challenges of combining and summarizing multiple answers to a medical question.