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ArticleJournal of biomedical informatics2017

Embedding of semantic predications.

Trevor Cohen, Dominic Widdows

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Article in Journal of biomedical informatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  13. Predicting Adverse Drug-Drug Interactions with Neural Embedding of Semantic PredicationsAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2019
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  16. Rediscovering Don Swanson: the Past, Present and Future of Literature-Based Discovery.Journal of data and information science (Warsaw, Poland) · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Trevor CohenSchool of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States. Electronic address: trevor.cohen@uth.tmc.edu.
Dominic WiddowsGrab, Inc., Seattle, WA, United States.

Funding

Using Biomedical Knowledge to Identify Plausible Signals for PharmacovigilanceR01LM011563 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI COHEN, TREVOR · 2013 to 2020
$3.0M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011563
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper concerns the generation of distributed vector representations of biomedical concepts from structured knowledge, in the form of subject-relation-object triplets known as semantic predications. Specifically, we evaluate the extent to which a representational approach we have developed for this purpose previously, known as Predication-based Semantic Indexing (PSI), might benefit from insights gleaned from neural-probabilistic language models, which have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years as a means to generate distributed vector representations of terms from free text. To do so, we develop a novel neural-probabilistic approach to encoding predications, called Embedding of Semantic Predications (ESP), by adapting aspects of the Skipgram with Negative Sampling (SGNS) algorithm to this purpose. We compare ESP and PSI across a number of tasks including recovery of encoded information, estimation of semantic similarity and relatedness, and identification of potentially therapeutic and harmful relationships using both analogical retrieval and supervised learning. We find advantages for ESP in some, but not all of these tasks, revealing the contexts in which the additional computational work of neural-probabilistic modeling is justified.

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AlgorithmsNatural Language ProcessingSemanticsHumansDistributional semanticsLiterature-based discoveryPharmacovigilancePredication-based semantic indexingSemantic predicationsWord embeddings

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PMID28284761
PMCPMC5441848

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