SPBERE: Boosting span-based pipeline biomedical entity and relation extraction via entity information.
J Biomed Inform
; 145: 104456, 2023 09.
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| ID: mdl-37482171
ABSTRACT
Triplet extraction is one of the fundamental tasks in biomedical text mining. Compared with traditional pipeline approaches, joint methods can alleviate the error propagation problem from entity recognition to relation classification. However, existing methods face challenges in detecting overlapping entities and overlapping relations, which are ubiquitous in biomedical texts. In this work, we propose a novel pipeline method of end-to-end biomedical triplet extraction. In particular, a span-based detection strategy is used to detect the overlapping triplets by enumerating possible candidate spans and entity pairs. The strategy is further used to capture different contextualized representations via an entity model and a relation model, respectively. Furthermore, to enhance interrelation between spans, entity information from the output of the entity model is used to construct the input for the relation model without utilizing any external knowledge. Our approach is evaluated on the drug-drug interaction (DDI) and chemical-protein interaction (CHEMPROT) datasets, exhibiting improvement of the absolute F1-score in relation extraction by 3.5%-3.7% compared prior work. The experimental results highlight the importance of overlapping triplet detection using the span-based approach, acquisition of various contextualized representations via different in-domain pre-trained language models, and early fusion of entity information in the relation model.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Minería de Datos
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Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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En
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J Biomed Inform
Asunto de la revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Año:
2023
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Article
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China