Chinese clinical named entity recognition via multi-head self-attention based BiLSTM-CRF.

Clinical named entity recognition (CNER) is a fundamental step for many clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems, which aims to recognize and classify clinical entities such as diseases, symptoms, exams, body parts and treatments in clinical free texts. In recent years, with the developmen...

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Publicado en:Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Vol. 127
Autores principales: An, Ying, Xia, Xianyun, Chen, Xianlai, Wu, Fang-Xiang, Wang, Jianxin
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. May2022
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          An, Ying
          Xia, Xianyun
          Chen, Xianlai
          Wu, Fang-Xiang
          Wang, Jianxin
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          Natural Language Processing
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          Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire
          Scales
          Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales
          Barthel Index
      ab: Clinical named entity recognition (CNER) is a fundamental step for many clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems, which aims to recognize and classify clinical entities such as diseases, symptoms, exams, body parts and treatments in clinical free texts. In recent years, with the development of deep learning technology, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in Chinese clinical named entity recognition and many other clinical NLP tasks. However, these state-of-the-art models failed to make full use of the global information and multi-level semantic features in clinical texts. We design an improved character-level representation approach which integrates the character embedding and the character-label embedding to enhance the specificity and diversity of feature representations. Then, a multi-head self-attention based Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory Conditional Random Field (MUSA-BiLSTM-CRF) model is proposed. By introducing the multi-head self-attention and combining a medical dictionary, the model can more effectively capture the weight relationships between characters and multi-level semantic feature information, which is expected to greatly improve the performance of Chinese clinical named entity recognition. We evaluate our model on two CCKS challenge (CCKS2017 Task 2 and CCKS2018 Task 1) benchmark datasets and the experimental results show that our proposed model achieves the best performance competing with the state-of-the-art DNN based methods.
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