Title
Named entity recognition in chemical patents using ensemble of contextual language models
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland
Publisher(s)
CEUR-WS
Abstract
Chemical patent documents describe a broad range of applications holding key reaction and compound information, such as chemical structure, reaction formulas, and molecular properties. These informational entities should be first identified in text passages to be utilized in downstream tasks. Text mining provides means to extract relevant information from chemical patents through information extraction techniques. As part of the Information Extraction task of the Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University challenge, in this work we study the effectiveness of contextualized language models to extract reaction information in chemical patents. We assess transformer architectures trained on a generic and specialised corpora to propose a new ensemble model. Our best model, based on a majority ensemble approach, achieves an exact F1-score of 92.30% and a relaxed F1-score of 96.24%. The results show that ensemble of contextualized language models can provide an effective method to extract information from chemical patents.
Volume
2696
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85121787807
ISSN of the container
16130073
Conference
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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