Yanjian Zhang


2020

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Automatic Term Name Generation for Gene Ontology: Task and Dataset
Yanjian Zhang | Qin Chen | Yiteng Zhang | Zhongyu Wei | Yixu Gao | Jiajie Peng | Zengfeng Huang | Weijian Sun | Xuanjing Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020

Terms contained in Gene Ontology (GO) have been widely used in biology and bio-medicine. Most previous research focuses on inferring new GO terms, while the term names that reflect the gene function are still named by the experts. To fill this gap, we propose a novel task, namely term name generation for GO, and build a large-scale benchmark dataset. Furthermore, we present a graph-based generative model that incorporates the relations between genes, words and terms for term name generation, which exhibits great advantages over the strong baselines.