Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling
Alan Ramponi, Rob van der Goot, Rosario Lombardo, Barbara Plank
Abstract
We introduce Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling (BeeSL), a joint end-to-end neural information extraction model. BeeSL recasts the task as sequence labeling, taking advantage of a multi-label aware encoding strategy and jointly modeling the intermediate tasks via multi-task learning. BeeSL is fast, accurate, end-to-end, and unlike current methods does not require any external knowledge base or preprocessing tools. BeeSL outperforms the current best system (Li et al., 2019) on the Genia 2011 benchmark by 1.57% absolute F1 score reaching 60.22% F1, establishing a new state of the art for the task. Importantly, we also provide first results on biomedical event extraction without gold entity information. Empirical results show that BeeSL’s speed and accuracy makes it a viable approach for large-scale real-world scenarios.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.emnlp-main.431
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5357–5367
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.431
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.431
- Cite (ACL):
- Alan Ramponi, Rob van der Goot, Rosario Lombardo, and Barbara Plank. 2020. Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 5357–5367, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Biomedical Event Extraction as Sequence Labeling (Ramponi et al., EMNLP 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp22-frontmatter/2020.emnlp-main.431.pdf