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A Deep Learning-Based System for PharmaCoNER

  • Ying Xiong
  • , Yedan Shen
  • , Yuanhang Huang
  • , Shuai Chen
  • , Buzhou Tang
  • , Xiaolong Wang
  • , Qingcai Chen
  • , Jun Yan
  • , Yi Zhou*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory
  • Ltd
  • Sun Yat-Sen University

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Abstract

The Biological Text Mining Unit at BSC and CNIO organized the first shared task on chemical & drug mention recognition from Spanish medical texts called PharmaCoNER (Pharmacological Substances, Compounds and proteins and Named Entity Recognition track) in 2019. The shared task includes two tracks: one for NER offset and entity classification (track 1) and the other one for concept indexing (track 2). We developed a pipeline system based on deep learning methods for this shared task, specifically, a subsystem based on BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) for NER offset and entity classification and a subsystem based on Bpool (Bi-LSTM with max/mean pooling) for concept indexing. Evaluation conducted on the shared task data showed that our system achieves a micro-average F1-score of 0.9105 on track 1 and a microaverage F1-score of 0.8391 on track 2. c 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioNLP-OST@EMNLP-IJNCLP 2019 - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages33-37
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781950737826
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks, BioNLP-OST@EMNLP-IJNCLP 2019 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 4 Nov 2019 → …

Publication series

NameBioNLP-OST@EMNLP-IJNCLP 2019 - Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks

Conference

Conference5th Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks, BioNLP-OST@EMNLP-IJNCLP 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period4/11/19 → …

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