Fine-grained Information Extraction from Biomedical Literature based on Knowledge-enriched Abstract Meaning Representation (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Compared with general natural language texts, sentences from scientific papers usually possess wider contexts between knowledge elements. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel biomedical Information Extraction model to extract scientific entities and events from English research papers using Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) they construct a sentence-level knowledge graph from an external knowledge base and encode it to improve the model's understanding of complex scientific concepts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can extract scientific entities and events from scientific literature and improve its understanding of complex scientific concepts. |
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