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The fundamental process of evidence extraction and synthesis in evidence-based medicine involves extracting PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome) elements from biomedical literature. However, Outcomes, being the most…

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Published biomedical information has and continues to rapidly increase. The recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), have generated considerable interest in automating the extraction, normalization, and representation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Armando D. Diaz Gonzalez , Kevin S. Hughes , Songhui Yue , Sean T. Hayes

Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) is an active area of research in natural language processing (NLP) concerned with identifying and extracting relationships between entities beyond sentence boundaries. Compared to the more…

The task of Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) aims to extract all potential emotion-cause pairs of a document without any annotation of emotion or cause clauses. Previous approaches on ECPE have tried to improve conventional two-step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Huu-Hiep Nguyen , Minh-Tien Nguyen

The diverse relationships among real-world events, including coreference, temporal, causal, and subevent relations, are fundamental to understanding natural languages. However, two drawbacks of existing datasets limit event relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiaozhi Wang , Yulin Chen , Ning Ding , Hao Peng , Zimu Wang , Yankai Lin , Xu Han , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), many researchers are attempting to extract structured information from document-level biomedical literature by fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). However, they face significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lei Zhao , Ling Kang , Quan Guo

Intelligently extracting and linking complex scientific information from unstructured text is a challenging endeavor particularly for those inexperienced with natural language processing. Here, we present a simple sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Alexander Dunn , John Dagdelen , Nicholas Walker , Sanghoon Lee , Andrew S. Rosen , Gerbrand Ceder , Kristin Persson , Anubhav Jain

Medical entity linking is the task of identifying and standardizing medical concepts referred to in an unstructured text. Most of the existing methods adopt a three-step approach of (1) detecting mentions, (2) generating a list of candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shikhar Vashishth , Denis Newman-Griffis , Rishabh Joshi , Ritam Dutt , Carolyn Rose

We introduce ChemDisGene, a new dataset for training and evaluating multi-class multi-label document-level biomedical relation extraction models. Our dataset contains 80k biomedical research abstracts labeled with mentions of chemicals,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Dongxu Zhang , Sunil Mohan , Michaela Torkar , Andrew McCallum

Text mining the relations between chemicals and proteins is an increasingly important task. The CHEMPROT track at BioCreative VI aims to promote the development and evaluation of systems that can automatically detect the chemical-protein…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yifan Peng , Anthony Rios , Ramakanth Kavuluru , Zhiyong Lu

The goal of case-based retrieval is to assist physicians in the clinical decision making process, by finding relevant medical literature in large archives. We propose a research that aims at improving the effectiveness of case-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Stefano Marchesin

This paper presents our participation in the AGAC Track from the 2019 BioNLP Open Shared Tasks. We provide a solution for Task 3, which aims to extract "gene - function change - disease" triples, where "gene" and "disease" are mentions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Ashok Thillaisundaram , Theodosia Togia

Extracting structured and grounded fact triples from raw text is a fundamental task in Information Extraction (IE). Existing IE datasets are typically collected from Wikipedia articles, using hyperlinks to link entities to the Wikidata…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chenxi Whitehouse , Clara Vania , Alham Fikri Aji , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

Dialogue-based Relation Extraction (DRE) aims to predict the relation type of argument pairs that are mentioned in dialogue. The latest trigger-enhanced methods propose trigger prediction tasks to promote DRE. However, these methods are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hao An , Dongsheng Chen , Weiyuan Xu , Zhihong Zhu , Yuexian Zou

Learning causal relationships from time series data is an important but challenging problem. Existing synthetic datasets often contain hidden artifacts that can be exploited by causal discovery methods, reducing their usefulness for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xiaoyu He , Petr Ryšavý , Jakub Mareček

In this paper, we present our approach and empirical observations for Cause-Effect Signal Span Detection -- Subtask 2 of Shared task 3~\cite{tan-etal-2022-event} at CASE 2022. The shared task aims to extract the cause, effect, and signal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xingran Chen , Ge Zhang , Adam Nik , Mingyu Li , Jie Fu

Extracting scientific evidence from biomedical studies for clinical research questions (e.g., Does stem cell transplantation improve quality of life in patients with medically refractory Crohn's disease compared to placebo?) is a crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Massimiliano Pronesti , Joao Bettencourt-Silva , Paul Flanagan , Alessandra Pascale , Oisin Redmond , Anya Belz , Yufang Hou

Objective: Causality mining is an active research area, which requires the application of state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques. In the healthcare domain, medical experts create clinical text to overcome the limitation of…

Knowledge-based question answering relies on the availability of facts, the majority of which cannot be found in structured sources (e.g. Wikipedia info-boxes, Wikidata). One of the major components of extracting facts from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Christos Christodoulopoulos , Arpit Mittal

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into biomedical research offers new opportunities for domainspecific reasoning and knowledge representation. However, their performance depends heavily on the semantic quality of training…