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Knowledge Graph Construction for Healthcare Services in Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a bright pearl in the treasure house of healthcare applications that has attracted increasing attention due to its huge applying potential, especially in the prevention and intervention of COVID-19 Pandemic. Such applications for healthcare decision-making are powerful tools to help provide actionable and explainable medical services to patients, but they are a knowledge-driven system and rely on knowledge graphs. However, most of TCM-related materials and guidebooks are preserved in the form of documents, lacking structured information and conceptual knowledge. To facility the study of domain-specific knowledge graphs in TCM, we define the ontology of knowledge graph in TCM with 29 types of entities and 32 types of relations, and then annotate a high-quality dataset (TCM-ERE) for Entity and Relation Extraction (E &RE) aligning with the concepts of the TCM-ontology. More than 40% of relations can only be inferred from multiple sentences in TCM-ERE, thus it can also be used for Chinese document-level E &RE research. The baseline models trained on the TCM-ERE are used to extract fact triples from TCM medical records for the enriching scale of the TCM-related knowledge graph (TCM-KG). TCM-ERE, TCM-KG and the baseline models are publicly available at https://gitee.com/yi_zhi_wei/acup1.git.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationService Science - CCF 16th International Conference, ICSS 2023, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsZhongjie Wang, Hanchuan Xu, Shangguang Wang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages321-335
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9789819944019
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event16th International Conference on Service Science, ICSS 2023 - Harbin, China
Duration: 13 May 202314 May 2023

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1844 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Service Science, ICSS 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period13/05/2314/05/23

Keywords

  • Healthcare services
  • Knowledge extraction
  • Knowledge graph
  • Traditional Chinese medicine

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