Multi-Input Multi-Output Sequence Labeling for Joint Extraction of Fact and Condition Tuples from Scientific Text (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract factual tuples from scientific text do not consider conditions. |
| Approach: | They propose a new sequence labeling framework to jointly extract fact and condition tuples from scientific sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves F1 score relative to existing methods by 4.2% and 6.2% on bioNLP2013. |
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