Title
Chemical-Protein Interaction Extraction Via Gaussian Probability Distribution And External Biomedical Knowledge
Abstract
Motivation: The biomedical literature contains a wealth of chemical-protein interactions (CPIs). Automatically extracting CPIs described in biomedical literature is essential for drug discovery, precision medicine, as well as basic biomedical research. Most existing methods focus only on the sentence sequence to identify these CPIs. However, the local structure of sentences and external biomedical knowledge also contain valuable information. Effective use of such information may improve the performance of CPI extraction.Results: In this article, we propose a novel neural network-based approach to improve CPI extraction. Specifically, the approach first employs BERT to generate high-quality contextual representations of the title sequence, instance sequence and knowledge sequence. Then, the Gaussian probability distribution is introduced to capture the local structure of the instance. Meanwhile, the attention mechanism is applied to fuse the title information and biomedical knowledge, respectively. Finally, the related representations are concatenated and fed into the softmax function to extract CPIs. We evaluate our proposed model on the CHEMPROT corpus. Our proposed model is superior in performance as compared with other state-of-the-art models. The experimental results show that the Gaussian probability distribution and external knowledge are complementary to each other. Integrating them can effectively improve the CPI extraction performance. Furthermore, the Gaussian probability distribution can effectively improve the extraction performance of sentences with overlapping relations in biomedical relation extraction tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa491
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
36
15
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
3
0.38
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sun Cong130.38
Zhihao Yang27315.35
Su Leilei330.38
Lei Wang45613.90
Yin Zhang513918.20
Hongfei Lin6768122.52
Jian Wang711218.98