SSGU-CD: A combined semantic and structural information graph U-shaped network for document-level Chemical-Disease interaction extraction.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

Document-level interaction extraction for Chemical-Disease is aimed at inferring the interaction relations between chemical entities and disease entities across multiple sentences. Compared with sentence-level relation extraction, document-level relation extraction can capture the associations between different entities throughout the entire document, which is found to be more practical for biomedical text information. However, current biomedical extraction methods mainly concentrate on sentence-level relation extraction, making it difficult to access the rich structural information contained in documents in practical application scenarios. We put forward SSGU-CD, a combined Semantic and Structural information Graph U-shaped network for document-level Chemical-Disease interaction extraction. This framework effectively stores document semantic and structure information as graphs and can fuse the original context information of documents. Using the framework, we propose a balanced combination of cross-entropy loss function to facilitate collaborative optimization among models with the aim of enhancing the ability to extract Chemical-Disease interaction relations. We evaluated SSGU-CD on the document-level relation extraction dataset CDR and BioRED, and the results demonstrate that the framework can significantly improve the extraction performance.

Authors

  • Pengyuan Nie
    Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100850, China.
  • Jinzhong Ning
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China.
  • Mengxuan Lin
    Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100850, China.
  • Zhihao Yang
    College of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
  • Lei Wang
    Department of Nursing, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.