Stacking With Auxiliary Features for Entity Linking in the Medical Domain

Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Mihaela Bornea, Ken Barker

Abstract
Linking spans of natural language text to concepts in a structured source is an important task for many problems. It allows intelligent systems to leverage rich knowledge available in those sources (such as concept properties and relations) to enhance the semantics of the mentions of these concepts in text. In the medical domain, it is common to link text spans to medical concepts in large, curated knowledge repositories such as the Unified Medical Language System. Different approaches have different strengths: some are precision-oriented, some recall-oriented; some better at considering context but more prone to hallucination. The variety of techniques suggests that ensembling could outperform component technologies at this task. In this paper, we describe our process for building a Stacking ensemble using additional, auxiliary features for Entity Linking in the medical domain. We report experiments that show that naive ensembling does not always outperform component Entity Linking systems, that stacking usually outperforms naive ensembling, and that auxiliary features added to the stacker further improve its performance on three distinct datasets. Our best model produces state-of-the-art results on several medical datasets.
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W17-2305
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BioNLP 2017
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August
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2017
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Vancouver, Canada,
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Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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39–47
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-2305
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10.18653/v1/W17-2305
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Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Mihaela Bornea, and Ken Barker. 2017. Stacking With Auxiliary Features for Entity Linking in the Medical Domain. In BioNLP 2017, pages 39–47, Vancouver, Canada,. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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