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Extracting relations is critical for knowledge base completion and construction in which distant supervised methods are widely used to extract relational facts automatically with the existing knowledge bases. However, the automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Tianyi Liu , Xinsong Zhang , Wanhao Zhou , Weijia Jia

We introduce a novel graph-based framework for alleviating key challenges in distantly-supervised relation extraction and demonstrate its effectiveness in the challenging and important domain of biomedical data. Specifically, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hao Zhang , Yang Liu , Xiaoyan Liu , Tianming Liang , Gaurav Sharma , Liang Xue , Maozu Guo

Objective: To evaluate the accuracy, computational cost and portability of a new Natural Language Processing (NLP) method for extracting medication information from clinical narratives. Materials and Methods: We propose an original…

Distant supervised relation extraction is an efficient approach to scale relation extraction to very large corpora, and has been widely used to find novel relational facts from plain text. Recent studies on neural relation extraction have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Zhengqiu He , Wenliang Chen , Zhenghua Li , Meishan Zhang , Wei Zhang , Min Zhang

Knowledge about protein-protein interactions is essential in understanding the biological processes such as metabolic pathways, DNA replication, and transcription etc. However, a majority of the existing Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Shweta Yadav , Ankit Kumar , Asif Ekbal , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Objective: To develop a high-throughput biomedical relation extraction system that takes advantage of the large language models'(LLMs) reading comprehension ability and biomedical world knowledge in a scalable and evidential manner.…

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Extracting relations across large text spans has been relatively underexplored in NLP, but it is particularly important for high-value domains such as biomedicine, where obtaining high recall of the latest findings is crucial for practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sheng Zhang , Cliff Wong , Naoto Usuyama , Sarthak Jain , Tristan Naumann , Hoifung Poon

Biomedical information is growing rapidly in the recent years and retrieving useful data through information extraction system is getting more attention. In the current research, we focus on different aspects of relation extraction…

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Evidence-based medicine, the practice in which healthcare professionals refer to the best available evidence when making decisions, forms the foundation of modern healthcare. However, it relies on labour-intensive systematic reviews, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jetsun Whitton , Anthony Hunter

Event extraction (EE) is one of the core information extraction tasks, whose purpose is to automatically identify and extract information about incidents and their actors from texts. This may be beneficial to several domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ali Balali , Masoud Asadpour , Ricardo Campos , Adam Jatowt

The main purpose of relation extraction is to extract the semantic relationships between tagged pairs of entities in a sentence, which plays an important role in the semantic understanding of sentences and the construction of knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Chenghong Sun , Weidong Ji , Guohui Zhou , Hui Guo , Zengxiang Yin , Yuqi Yue

Temporal information extraction from unstructured text is essential for contextualizing events and deriving actionable insights, particularly in the medical domain. We address the task of extracting clinical events and their temporal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Rochana Chaturvedi , Peyman Baghershahi , Sourav Medya , Barbara Di Eugenio

Dependency tree structures capture long-distance and syntactic relationships between words in a sentence. The syntactic relations (e.g., nominal subject, object) can potentially infer the existence of certain named entities. In addition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhanming Jie , Wei Lu

Sentence-level relation extraction aims to identify the relation between two entities for a given sentence. The existing works mostly focus on obtaining a better entity representation and adopting a multi-label classifier for relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jiewen Zheng , Ze Chen

Past work in relation extraction has focused on binary relations in single sentences. Recent NLP inroads in high-value domains have sparked interest in the more general setting of extracting n-ary relations that span multiple sentences. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Nanyun Peng , Hoifung Poon , Chris Quirk , Kristina Toutanova , Wen-tau Yih

Document-level relation extraction is a complex human process that requires logical inference to extract relationships between named entities in text. Existing approaches use graph-based neural models with words as nodes and edges as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Fenia Christopoulou , Makoto Miwa , Sophia Ananiadou

Relation extraction is the task of determining the relation between two entities in a sentence. Distantly-supervised models are popular for this task. However, sentences can be long and two entities can be located far from each other in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tapas Nayak , Hwee Tou Ng

Relation extraction is essentially a text classification problem, which can be tackled by fine-tuning a pre-trained language model (LM). However, a key challenge arises from the fact that relation extraction cannot straightforwardly be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Frank Mtumbuka , Steven Schockaert

Relation extraction in the biomedical domain is challenging due to the lack of labeled data and high annotation costs, needing domain experts. Distant supervision is commonly used to tackle the scarcity of annotated data by automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Saadullah Amin , Pasquale Minervini , David Chang , Pontus Stenetorp , Günter Neumann

Due to the exponential growth of biomedical literature, event and relation extraction are important tasks in biomedical text mining. Most work only focus on relation extraction, and detect a single entity pair mention on a short span of…

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