Convolutional neural networks for chemical-disease relation extraction are improved with character-based word embeddings

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Karin Verspoor


Abstract
We investigate the incorporation of character-based word representations into a standard CNN-based relation extraction model. We experiment with two common neural architectures, CNN and LSTM, to learn word vector representations from character embeddings. Through a task on the BioCreative-V CDR corpus, extracting relationships between chemicals and diseases, we show that models exploiting the character-based word representations improve on models that do not use this information, obtaining state-of-the-art result relative to previous neural approaches.
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W18-2314
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Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop
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July
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2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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129–136
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-2314
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10.18653/v1/W18-2314
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Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor. 2018. Convolutional neural networks for chemical-disease relation extraction are improved with character-based word embeddings. In Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop, pages 129–136, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Convolutional neural networks for chemical-disease relation extraction are improved with character-based word embeddings (Nguyen & Verspoor, BioNLP 2018)
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