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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2014

Knowledge-based extraction of adverse drug events from biomedical text.

Ning Kang, Bharat Singh, Chinh Bui, Zubair Afzal, Erik M van Mulligen, Jan A Kors

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6 authors.

Ning KangDepartment of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, P,O, Box 2040, 3000, CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. n.kang@erasmusmc.nl.
Bharat Singh
Chinh Bui
Zubair Afzal
Erik M van Mulligen
Jan A Kors

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Abstract

backgroundMany biomedical relation extraction systems are machine-learning based and have to be trained on large annotated corpora that are expensive and cumbersome to construct. We developed a knowledge-based relation extraction system that requires minimal training data, and applied the system for the extraction of adverse drug events from biomedical text. The system consists of a concept recognition module that identifies drugs and adverse effects in sentences, and a knowledge-base module that establishes whether a relation exists between the recognized concepts. The knowledge base was filled with information from the Unified Medical Language System. The performance of the system was evaluated on the ADE corpus, consisting of 1644 abstracts with manually annotated adverse drug events. Fifty abstracts were used for training, the remaining abstracts were used for testing.

resultsThe knowledge-based system obtained an F-score of 50.5%, which was 34.4 percentage points better than the co-occurrence baseline. Increasing the training set to 400 abstracts improved the F-score to 54.3%. When the system was compared with a machine-learning system, jSRE, on a subset of the sentences in the ADE corpus, our knowledge-based system achieved an F-score that is 7 percentage points higher than the F-score of jSRE trained on 50 abstracts, and still 2 percentage points higher than jSRE trained on 90% of the corpus.

conclusionA knowledge-based approach can be successfully used to extract adverse drug events from biomedical text without need for a large training set. Whether use of a knowledge base is equally advantageous for other biomedical relation-extraction tasks remains to be investigated.

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Artificial IntelligenceDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsKnowledge BasesData MiningHumansUnified Medical Language System

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PMID24593054
PMCPMC3973995

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