Distantly supervised biomedical relation extraction using piecewise attentive convolutional neural network and reinforcement learning.

Objective: There have been various methods to deal with the erroneous training data in distantly supervised relation extraction (RE), however, their performance is still far from satisfaction. We aimed to deal with the insufficient modeling problem on instance-label correlations for predicting biome...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 2571 - 2582
Main Authors: Zhu, Tiantian, Qin, Yang, Xiang, Yang, Hu, Baotian, Chen, Qingcai, Peng, Weihua
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2021
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        atl: Distantly supervised biomedical relation extraction using piecewise attentive convolutional neural network and reinforcement learning.
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          Zhu, Tiantian
          Qin, Yang
          Xiang, Yang
          Hu, Baotian
          Chen, Qingcai
          Peng, Weihua
        affil: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) , Shenzhen, China
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          Unified Medical Language System
          Semantics
          Comparative Studies
          Multicenter Studies
          Evaluation Research
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      ab: Objective: There have been various methods to deal with the erroneous training data in distantly supervised relation extraction (RE), however, their performance is still far from satisfaction. We aimed to deal with the insufficient modeling problem on instance-label correlations for predicting biomedical relations using deep learning and reinforcement learning.Materials and Methods: In this study, a new computational model called piecewise attentive convolutional neural network and reinforcement learning (PACNN+RL) was proposed to perform RE on distantly supervised data generated from Unified Medical Language System with MEDLINE abstracts and benchmark datasets. In PACNN+RL, PACNN was introduced to encode semantic information of biomedical text, and the RL method with memory backtracking mechanism was leveraged to alleviate the erroneous data issue. Extensive experiments were conducted on 4 biomedical RE tasks.Results: The proposed PACNN+RL model achieved competitive performance on 8 biomedical corpora, outperforming most baseline systems. Specifically, PACNN+RL outperformed all baseline methods with the F1-score of 0.5592 on the may-prevent dataset, 0.6666 on the may-treat dataset, and 0.3838 on the DDI corpus, 2011. For the protein-protein interaction RE task, we obtained new state-of-the-art performance on 4 out of 5 benchmark datasets.Conclusions: The performance on many distantly supervised biomedical RE tasks was substantially improved, primarily owing to the denoising effect of the proposed model. It is anticipated that PACNN+RL will become a useful tool for large-scale RE and other downstream tasks to facilitate biomedical knowledge acquisition. We also made the demonstration program and source code publicly available at http://112.74.48.115:9000/.
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