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The best evidence concerning comparative treatment effectiveness comes from clinical trials, the results of which are reported in unstructured articles. Medical experts must manually extract information from articles to inform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Benjamin E. Nye , Jay DeYoung , Eric Lehman , Ani Nenkova , Iain J. Marshall , Byron C. Wallace

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses rely on converting narrative articles into structured, numerically grounded study records. Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), it remains unclear whether they can meet the structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zhiyin Tan , Jennifer D'Souza

Knowledge base construction is crucial for summarising, understanding and inferring relationships between biomedical entities. However, for many practical applications such as drug discovery, the scarcity of relevant facts (e.g. gene X is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Julien Fauqueur , Ashok Thillaisundaram , Theodosia Togia

Past work in relation extraction mostly focuses on binary relation between entity pairs within single sentence. Recently, the NLP community has gained interest in relation extraction in entity pairs spanning multiple sentences. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Pankaj Gupta , Subburam Rajaram , Hinrich Schütze , Bernt Andrassy , Thomas Runkler

We introduce initial groundwork for estimating suicide risk and mental health in a deep learning framework. By modeling multiple conditions, the system learns to make predictions about suicide risk and mental health at a low false positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Adrian Benton , Margaret Mitchell , Dirk Hovy

Relation extraction is an important task in structuring content of text data, and becomes especially challenging when learning with weak supervision---where only a limited number of labeled sentences are given and a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hongtao Lin , Jun Yan , Meng Qu , Xiang Ren

Scarcity of labeled data is one of the most frequent problems faced in machine learning. This is particularly true in relation extraction in text mining, where large corpora of texts exists in many application domains, while labeling of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Linara Adilova , Sven Giesselbach , Stefan Rüping

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely used in recommender systems, wherein predicting each type of user feedback on items (e.g, click, purchase) are treated as individual tasks and jointly trained with a unified model. Our key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chenxiao Yang , Junwei Pan , Xiaofeng Gao , Tingyu Jiang , Dapeng Liu , Guihai Chen

Relation Extraction (RE) is a vital step to complete Knowledge Graph (KG) by extracting entity relations from texts.However, it usually suffers from the long-tail issue. The training data mainly concentrates on a few types of relations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yixin Cao , Jun Kuang , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou , Yonggang Wen , Tat-Seng Chua

The Interaction between Drugs and Targets (DTI) in human body plays a crucial role in biomedical science and applications. As millions of papers come out every year in the biomedical domain, automatically discovering DTI knowledge from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yutai Hou , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Shufang Xie , Yang Fan , Jinhua Zhu , Wanxiang Che , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

In natural language, often multiple entities appear in the same text. However, most previous works in Relation Extraction (RE) limit the scope to identifying the relation between two entities at a time. Such an approach induces a quadratic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhijing Jin , Yongyi Yang , Xipeng Qiu , Zheng Zhang

Depression is a serious mental illness that impacts the way people communicate, especially through their emotions, and, allegedly, the way they interact with others. This work examines depression signals in dialogs, a less studied setting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Chuyuan Li , Chloé Braud , Maxime Amblard

Joint extraction of entities and relations is an important task in information extraction. To tackle this problem, we firstly propose a novel tagging scheme that can convert the joint extraction task to a tagging problem. Then, based on our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Suncong Zheng , Feng Wang , Hongyun Bao , Yuexing Hao , Peng Zhou , Bo Xu

The community of different types of microbes present in a biological niche plays a very important role in functioning of the system. The crosstalk or interactions among the different microbes contributes to the building blocks of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Krishanu Das Baksi , Vatsala Pokhrel , Kuntal Kumar Bhusan , Sharmila Mande

\textbf{Objective:} We aimed to develop an advanced multi-task large language model (LLM) framework to extract multiple types of information about dietary supplements (DS) from clinical records. \textbf{Methods:} We used four core DS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zaifu Zhan , Shuang Zhou , Mingchen Li , Rui Zhang

Joint extraction of entities and relations from unstructured texts is a crucial task in information extraction. Recent methods achieve considerable performance but still suffer from some inherent limitations, such as redundancy of relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hengyi Zheng , Rui Wen , Xi Chen , Yifan Yang , Yunyan Zhang , Ziheng Zhang , Ningyu Zhang , Bin Qin , Ming Xu , Yefeng Zheng

Extracting relations from text corpora is an important task in text mining. It becomes particularly challenging when focusing on weakly-supervised relation extraction, that is, utilizing a few relation instances (i.e., a pair of entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Meng Qu , Xiang Ren , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Multimodal relation extraction (MRE) is the task of identifying the semantic relationships between two entities based on the context of the sentence image pair. Existing retrieval-augmented approaches mainly focused on modeling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Xuming Hu , Zhijiang Guo , Zhiyang Teng , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at learning related tasks in a unified model to achieve mutual improvement among tasks considering their shared knowledge. It is an important topic in recommendation due to the demand for multi-task prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Yuhao Wang , Ha Tsz Lam , Yi Wong , Ziru Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Information extraction techniques, including named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE), are crucial in many domains to support making sense of vast amounts of unstructured text data by identifying and connecting relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mingjie Li , Karin Verspoor