A BERT-based One-Pass Multi-Task Model for Clinical Temporal Relation Extraction

Chen Lin, Timothy Miller, Dmitriy Dligach, Farig Sadeque, Steven Bethard, Guergana Savova


Abstract
Recently BERT has achieved a state-of-the-art performance in temporal relation extraction from clinical Electronic Medical Records text. However, the current approach is inefficient as it requires multiple passes through each input sequence. We extend a recently-proposed one-pass model for relation classification to a one-pass model for relation extraction. We augment this framework by introducing global embeddings to help with long-distance relation inference, and by multi-task learning to increase model performance and generalizability. Our proposed model produces results on par with the state-of-the-art in temporal relation extraction on the THYME corpus and is much “greener” in computational cost.
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2020.bionlp-1.7
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Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing
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July
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2020
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Online
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BioNLP
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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70–75
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10.18653/v1/2020.bionlp-1.7
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Chen Lin, Timothy Miller, Dmitriy Dligach, Farig Sadeque, Steven Bethard, and Guergana Savova. 2020. A BERT-based One-Pass Multi-Task Model for Clinical Temporal Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, pages 70–75, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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