A neural joint model for entity and relation extraction from biomedical text.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Extracting biomedical entities and their relations from text has important applications on biomedical research. Previous work primarily utilized feature-based pipeline models to process this task. Many efforts need to be made on feature engineering when feature-based models are employed. Moreover, pipeline models may suffer error propagation and are not able to utilize the interactions between subtasks. Therefore, we propose a neural joint model to extract biomedical entities as well as their relations simultaneously, and it can alleviate the problems above.

Authors

  • Fei Li
    Institute for Precision Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • Meishan Zhang
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, Xuefu Road, Harbin, China.
  • Guohong Fu
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, Xuefu Road, Harbin, China.
  • Donghong Ji
    School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China. dhji@whu.edu.cn.