BERTina: A BERT-powered HIV/AIDS Question Answering Tool

The HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome) pandemic is still prominent in the global South. However, the proper messaging concerning this pandemic is still a challenge; especially in resource-limited countries. Fortunately, the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can assist in resolving this problem. In this paper, we propose a Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool called BERTina, which can be used as an HIV/AIDS question answering tool. The utility of the BERTina tool is underlined by the robustness of this tool against adversarial questions.