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Multi-Level Attention Based BLSTM Neural Network for Biomedical Event Extraction Xinyu HE Lishuang LI Xingchen SONG Degen HUANG Fuji REN Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E102-D No.9 pp.1842-1850 Publication Date: 2019/09/01 Publicized: 2019/04/26 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2018EDP7268 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Natural Language Processing Keyword: event extraction, trigger detection, argument detection, BLSTM neural network, multi-level attention, Full Text: PDF(504.3KB)>>
Summary: Biomedical event extraction is an important and challenging task in Information Extraction, which plays a key role for medicine research and disease prevention. Most of the existing event detection methods are based on shallow machine learning methods which mainly rely on domain knowledge and elaborately designed features. Another challenge is that some crucial information as well as the interactions among words or arguments may be ignored since most works treat words and sentences equally. Therefore, we employ a Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BLSTM) neural network for event extraction, which can skip handcrafted complex feature extraction. Furthermore, we propose a multi-level attention mechanism, including word level attention which determines the importance of words in a sentence, and the sentence level attention which determines the importance of relevant arguments. Finally, we train dependency word embeddings and add sentence vectors to enrich semantic information. The experimental results show that our model achieves an F-score of 59.61% on the commonly used dataset (MLEE) of biomedical event extraction, which outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. | ||||||||||
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