ReactIE: Enhancing Chemical Reaction Extraction with Weak Supervision

Ming Zhong, Siru Ouyang, Minhao Jiang, Vivian Hu, Yizhu Jiao, Xuan Wang, Jiawei Han

Abstract
Structured chemical reaction information plays a vital role for chemists engaged in laboratory work and advanced endeavors such as computer-aided drug design. Despite the importance of extracting structured reactions from scientific literature, data annotation for this purpose is cost-prohibitive due to the significant labor required from domain experts. Consequently, the scarcity of sufficient training data poses an obstacle to the progress of related models in this domain. In this paper, we propose ReactIE, which combines two weakly supervised approaches for pre-training. Our method utilizes frequent patterns within the text as linguistic cues to identify specific characteristics of chemical reactions. Additionally, we adopt synthetic data from patent records as distant supervision to incorporate domain knowledge into the model. Experiments demonstrate that ReactIE achieves substantial improvements and outperforms all existing baselines.
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2023.findings-acl.767
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12120–12130
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.767
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.767
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Ming Zhong, Siru Ouyang, Minhao Jiang, Vivian Hu, Yizhu Jiao, Xuan Wang, and Jiawei Han. 2023. ReactIE: Enhancing Chemical Reaction Extraction with Weak Supervision. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 12120–12130, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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