Detecting Anatomical and Functional Connectivity Relations in Biomedical Literature via Language Representation Models

Ibrahim Burak Ozyurt, Joseph Menke, Anita Bandrowski, Maryann Martone


Abstract
Understanding of nerve-organ interactions is crucial to facilitate the development of effective bioelectronic treatments. Towards the end of developing a systematized and computable wiring diagram of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), we introduce a curated ANS connectivity corpus together with several neural language representation model based connectivity relation extraction systems. We also show that active learning guided curation for labeled corpus expansion significantly outperforms randomly selecting connectivity relation candidates minimizing curation effort. Our final relation extraction system achieves F1 = 72.8% on anatomical connectivity and F1 = 74.6% on functional connectivity relation extraction.
Anthology ID:
2021.sdp-1.4
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing
Month:
June
Year:
2021
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Online
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Iz Beltagy, Arman Cohan, Guy Feigenblat, Dayne Freitag, Tirthankar Ghosal, Keith Hall, Drahomira Herrmannova, Petr Knoth, Kyle Lo, Philipp Mayr, Robert M. Patton, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Anita de Waard, Kuansan Wang, Lucy Lu Wang
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sdp
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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27–35
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.sdp-1.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.sdp-1.4
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Ibrahim Burak Ozyurt, Joseph Menke, Anita Bandrowski, and Maryann Martone. 2021. Detecting Anatomical and Functional Connectivity Relations in Biomedical Literature via Language Representation Models. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing, pages 27–35, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Detecting Anatomical and Functional Connectivity Relations in Biomedical Literature via Language Representation Models (Ozyurt et al., sdp 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.sdp-1.4.pdf
Code
 scicrunch/connectivity-re