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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2022

Biomedical relation extraction via knowledge-enhanced reading comprehension.

Jing Chen, Baotian Hu, Weihua Peng, Qingcai Chen, Buzhou Tang

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Jing ChenIntelligent Computing Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China.
Baotian HuIntelligent Computing Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China. baotianchina@gmail.com.
Weihua PengBaidu International Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, China.
Qingcai ChenIntelligent Computing Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China. qingcai.chen@hit.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8473-7293
Buzhou TangIntelligent Computing Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China.

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Natural Science Foundation of China 61872113Natural Science Foundation of China 61876052Special Foundation for Technology Research Program of Guangdong Province 2015B010131010Strategic Emerging Industry Development Special Funds of Shenzhen JCYJ20180306172232154
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backgroundIn biomedical research, chemical and disease relation extraction from unstructured biomedical literature is an essential task. Effective context understanding and knowledge integration are two main research problems in this task. Most work of relation extraction focuses on classification for entity mention pairs. Inspired by the effectiveness of machine reading comprehension (RC) in the respect of context understanding, solving biomedical relation extraction with the RC framework at both intra-sentential and inter-sentential levels is a new topic worthy to be explored. Except for the unstructured biomedical text, many structured knowledge bases (KBs) provide valuable guidance for biomedical relation extraction. Utilizing knowledge in the RC framework is also worthy to be investigated. We propose a knowledge-enhanced reading comprehension (KRC) framework to leverage reading comprehension and prior knowledge for biomedical relation extraction. First, we generate questions for each relation, which reformulates the relation extraction task to a question answering task. Second, based on the RC framework, we integrate knowledge representation through an efficient knowledge-enhanced attention interaction mechanism to guide the biomedical relation extraction.

resultsThe proposed model was evaluated on the BioCreative V CDR dataset and CHR dataset. Experiments show that our model achieved a competitive document-level F1 of 71.18% and 93.3%, respectively, compared with other methods.

conclusionResult analysis reveals that open-domain reading comprehension data and knowledge representation can help improve biomedical relation extraction in our proposed KRC framework. Our work can encourage more research on bridging reading comprehension and biomedical relation extraction and promote the biomedical relation extraction.

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Biomedical ResearchComprehensionKnowledge BasesLanguageBiomedical relation extractionKnowledge attention mechanismReading comprehension

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