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Exploring pattern structures of syntactic trees for relation extraction

  • Artuur Leeuwenberg*
  • , Aleksey Buzmakov
  • , Yannick Toussaint
  • , Amedeo Napoli
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper we explore the possibility of defining an original pattern structure for managing syntactic trees. More precisely, we are interested in the extraction of relations such as drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in medical texts where sentences are represented as syntactic trees. In this specific pattern structure, called STPS, the similarity operator is based on rooted tree intersection. Moreover, we introduce "Lazy Pattern Structure Classification" (LPSC), which is a symbolic method able to extract and classify DDI sentences w.r.t. STPS. To decrease computation time, a projection and a set of tree-simplification operations are proposed. We evaluated the method by means of a 10-fold cross validation on the corpus of the DDI extraction challenge 2011, and we obtained very encouraging results that are reported at the end of the paper.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFormal Concept Analysis - 13th International Conference, ICFCA 2015, Proceedings
EditorsChristian Sacarea, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Jaume Baixeries
PublisherSpringer
Pages153-168
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9783319195445
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2015 - Nerja, Spain
Duration: 23 Jun 201526 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Volume9113
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA 2015
Country/TerritorySpain
CityNerja
Period23/06/1526/06/15

Keywords

  • DDI extraction
  • Formal concept analysis
  • Pattern structures
  • Relation extraction

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