Deep neural networks and distant supervision for geographic location mention extraction.
Bioinformatics
; 34(13): i565-i573, 2018 07 01.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29950020
ABSTRACT
Motivation Virus phylogeographers rely on DNA sequences of viruses and the locations of the infected hosts found in public sequence databases like GenBank for modeling virus spread. However, the locations in GenBank records are often only at the country or state level, and may require phylogeographers to scan the journal articles associated with the records to identify more localized geographic areas. To automate this process, we present a named entity recognizer (NER) for detecting locations in biomedical literature. We built the NER using a deep feedforward neural network to determine whether a given token is a toponym or not. To overcome the limited human annotated data available for training, we use distant supervision techniques to generate additional samples to train our NER. Results:
Our NER achieves an F1-score of 0.910 and significantly outperforms the previous state-of-the-art system. Using the additional data generated through distant supervision further boosts the performance of the NER achieving an F1-score of 0.927. The NER presented in this research improves over previous systems significantly. Our experiments also demonstrate the NER's capability to embed external features to further boost the system's performance. We believe that the same methodology can be applied for recognizing similar biomedical entities in scientific literature.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Vírus
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Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação
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Filogeografia
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Aprendizado Profundo
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bioinformatics
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos