An extended dependency graph for relation extraction in biomedical texts

TitleAn extended dependency graph for relation extraction in biomedical texts
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Conference2015
AuthorsPeng Y, Gupta S, Wu C, Shanker V
Conference NameProceedings of BioNLP 15
Pagination21–30
Date Published07/2015
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Conference LocationBeijing, China
Abstract

Kernel-based methods are widely used for relation extraction task and obtain good results by leveraging lexical and syntactic information. However, in biomedical domain these methods are limited by the size of dataset and have difficulty in coping with variations in text. To address this problem, we propose an ExtendedDependency Graph (EDG) by incorporating a few simple linguistic ideas and include information beyond syntax. We believe the use of EDG will enable machine learning methods to generalize more easily. Experiments confirm that EDG pro-vides up to 10% f-value improvement overdependency graph using mainstream kernel methods over five corpora. We conducted additional experiments to provide a more detailed analysis of the contributions of individual modules in EDG construction.

DOI10.18653/v1/W15-3803