BioDEX: Large-Scale Biomedical Adverse Drug Event Extraction for Real-World Pharmacovigilance (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Karel D’Oosterlinck, François Remy, Johannes Deleu, Thomas Demeester, Chris Develder, Klim Zaporojets, Aneiss Ghodsi, Simon Ellershaw, Jack Collins, Christopher Potts
| Challenge: | pharmacovigilance (PV) is a tool for analyzing adverse drug events from biomedical literature . pharmacologists use natural language processing to extract core information from papers . |
| Approach: | They propose a resource for biomedical adverse drug event eXtraction using natural language processing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves 59.1% F1 (validation) and estimates human performance to be 72.0% F1 . the proposed model could be used to improve drug safety monitoring, also called pharmacovigilance, in the future. |
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