Biomedical Event Extraction based on Knowledge-driven Tree-LSTM

Diya Li, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han


Abstract
Event extraction for the biomedical domain is more challenging than that in the general news domain since it requires broader acquisition of domain-specific knowledge and deeper understanding of complex contexts. To better encode contextual information and external background knowledge, we propose a novel knowledge base (KB)-driven tree-structured long short-term memory networks (Tree-LSTM) framework, incorporating two new types of features: (1) dependency structures to capture wide contexts; (2) entity properties (types and category descriptions) from external ontologies via entity linking. We evaluate our approach on the BioNLP shared task with Genia dataset and achieve a new state-of-the-art result. In addition, both quantitative and qualitative studies demonstrate the advancement of the Tree-LSTM and the external knowledge representation for biomedical event extraction.
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N19-1145
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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
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June
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2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1421–1430
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https://aclanthology.org/N19-1145
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10.18653/v1/N19-1145
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Diya Li, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, and Jiawei Han. 2019. Biomedical Event Extraction based on Knowledge-driven Tree-LSTM. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 1421–1430, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Biomedical Event Extraction based on Knowledge-driven Tree-LSTM (Li et al., NAACL 2019)
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