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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2024

Chemical entity normalization for successful translational development of Alzheimer's disease and dementia therapeutics.

Sarah Mullin, Robert McDougal, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Halil Kilicoglu, Amanda Beck, Caroline J Zeiss

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6 authors.

Sarah MullinRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA. sarah.mullin@roswellpark.org.
Robert McDougalYale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
Kei-Hoi CheungYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Halil KilicogluUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
Amanda BeckAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Caroline J ZeissYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

Funding

Yale Alzheimer Disease Research CenterP30AG066508 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STEPHEN M STRITTMATTER, CHRISTOPHER H VAN DYCK · 2020 to 2026
$30.2M
MEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH TRAINING AT YALET15LM007056 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Mark Bender Gerstein, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 1987 to 2026
$22.2M
NIA NIH HHS 5P30AG066508NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066508NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007056U.S. National Library of Medicine 5T15LM007056-35
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Abstract

backgroundIdentifying chemical mentions within the Alzheimer's and dementia literature can provide a powerful tool to further therapeutic research. Leveraging the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology, which is rich in hierarchical and other relationship types, for entity normalization can provide an advantage for future downstream applications. We provide a reproducible hybrid approach that combines an ontology-enhanced PubMedBERT model for disambiguation with a dictionary-based method for candidate selection.

resultsThere were 56,553 chemical mentions in the titles of 44,812 unique PubMed article abstracts. Based on our gold standard, our method of disambiguation improved entity normalization by 25.3 percentage points compared to using only the dictionary-based approach with fuzzy-string matching for disambiguation. For the CRAFT corpus, our method outperformed baselines (maximum 78.4%) with a 91.17% accuracy. For our Alzheimer's and dementia cohort, we were able to add 47.1% more potential mappings between MeSH and ChEBI when compared to BioPortal.

conclusionUse of natural language models like PubMedBERT and resources such as ChEBI and PubChem provide a beneficial way to link entity mentions to ontology terms, while further supporting downstream tasks like filtering ChEBI mentions based on roles and assertions to find beneficial therapies for Alzheimer's and dementia.

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Alzheimer DiseaseDementiaBiological OntologiesHumansNatural Language ProcessingTranslational Research, BiomedicalAlzheimerChEBIDementiaEntity normalizationOntology

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PMCPMC11290083

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