1. Biomedical Event Trigger Detection Based on Two-Stage Question Answering Paradigm.
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XING Shuai, XIONG Yujie, SU Qianmin, and HUANG Jihan
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QUESTION answering systems ,DATABASES ,SCARCITY ,CORPORA - Abstract
The existing biomedical event trigger detection methods have the following defects: Redundant information unrelated to triggers are retained; potential correlations between entities and events are ignored; traditional methods are vulnerable to data scarcity. A biomedical event trigger detection based on two-stage question answering paradigm is proposed to address the above problems. In the event type identification phase, in order to exclude the interference of irrelevant information, the attention based on syntactic distance is allowed to capture more meaningful contextual features. In order to effectively utilize the potential features in the entities, the word-entity-event co-occurrence feature based on global statistics is used to guide event type aware attention to explore the strong relationship between words and events. In the trigger localization phase, the trigger index of the event in the sentence is answered according to the identified event type questions, thus leveraging the rich question answering database to achieve data enhancement. The results on the MLEE corpus show that the two-stage question answering paradigm, syntactic distance attention, and event type aware attention effectively improve the performance of the model, and the proposed model achieves 81.39% F1-score, outperforming other baseline models in terms of detailed results for multiple event types. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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