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Ranking relations between diseases, drugs and genes for a curation task

Clematide, Simon; Rinaldi, Fabio (2012). Ranking relations between diseases, drugs and genes for a curation task. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 3(Suppl 3):S5.

Abstract

Background: One of the key pieces of information which biomedical text mining systems are expected to extract from the literature are interactions among different types of biomedical entities (proteins, genes, diseases, drugs, etc.). Several large resources of curated relations between biomedical entities are currently available, such as the Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB) or the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD). Biomedical text mining systems, and in particular those which deal with the extraction of relationships among entities, could make better use of the wealth of already curated material. Results: We propose a simple and effective method based on logistic regression (also known as maximum entropy modeling) for an optimized ranking of relation candidates utilizing curated abstracts. Furthermore, we examine the effects and difficulties of using widely available metadata (i.e. MeSH terms and chemical substance index terms) for relation extraction. Cross-validation experiments result in an improvement of the ranking quality in terms of AUCiP/R by 39% (PharmGKB) and 116% (CTD) against a frequency-based baseline of 0.39 (PharmGKB) and 0.21 (CTD). For the TAP-10 metrics, we achieve an improvement of 53% (PharmGKB) and 134% (CTD) against the same baseline system (0.21 PharmGKB and 0.15 CTD). Conclusions: Our experiments with the PharmGKB and the CTD database show a strong positive effect for the ranking of relation candidates utilizing the vast amount of curated relations covered by currently available knowledge databases. The tasks of concept identification and candidate relation generation profit from the adaptation to previously curated material. This presents an effective and practical method suitable for conservative extension and re-validation of biomedical relations from texts that has been successfully used for curation experiments with the PharmGKB and CTD database.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
410 Linguistics
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Information Systems
Physical Sciences > Computer Science Applications
Health Sciences > Health Informatics
Physical Sciences > Computer Networks and Communications
Language:English
Date:2012
Deposited On:13 Mar 2013 07:56
Last Modified:26 Oct 2024 03:33
Publisher:BioMed Central
ISSN:2041-1480
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:PubMed ID. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-3-S3-S5
PubMed ID:23046495
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