Title
Biomedical document triage using a hierarchical attention-based capsule network.
Abstract
BackgroundBiomedical document triage is the foundation of biomedical information extraction, which is important to precision medicine. Recently, some neural networks-based methods have been proposed to classify biomedical documents automatically. In the biomedical domain, documents are often very long and often contain very complicated sentences. However, the current methods still find it difficult to capture important features across sentences.ResultsIn this paper, we propose a hierarchical attention-based capsule model for biomedical document triage. The proposed model effectively employs hierarchical attention mechanism and capsule networks to capture valuable features across sentences and construct a final latent feature representation for a document. We evaluated our model on three public corpora.ConclusionsExperimental results showed that both hierarchical attention mechanism and capsule networks are helpful in biomedical document triage task. Our method proved itself highly competitive or superior compared with other state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1186/s12859-020-03673-5
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Biomedical document triage,Capsule network,Hierarchical attention mechanism,Biomedical literature
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SUPnan
1471-2105
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Wang17316.74
Mengying Li200.34
Qishuai Diao300.34
Hongfei Lin4768122.52
Zhihao Yang57315.35
Yijia Zhang6152.09