Hierarchical Neural Networks for Sequential Sentence Classification in Medical Scientific Abstracts (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing sentences classification models often classify sentences in isolation without considering the context in which sentences appear. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical sequential labeling network to make use of contextual information within surrounding sentences to help classify the current sentence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by 2%-3% on two benchmarking datasets for sequential sentence classification in medical scientific abstracts. |
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