“…The goal of intent detection is to identify query intent and classify them into specific categories (Chen et al, 2012;Howard and Cambria, 2013;Guo et al, 2014;Cai et al, 2017). With artificial intelligence gradually changing the landscape of healthcare and biomedical research (Yu et al, 2018), medical intent detection (Zhang et al, 2021;Chen et al, 2020a) becomes an important task. In medical domain, query intent can be divided into many categories, such as disease description, medical fees, treatment plan, precautions, and so on, which are domain-specific with highly specialized medical knowledge (Zhang et al, 2021).…”