Syntax-aware Multi-task Graph Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Relation Extraction (D19-62)
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| Challenge: | 80% of the data sets for relation extraction tasks are negative instances, resulting in a lack of syntactic information between two entity mentions. |
| Approach: | They propose a graph convolutional networks model that incorporates dependency parsing and contextualized embedding to capture comprehensive contextual information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art F-score on the 2013 drug-drug interaction extraction task. |
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