Interactive Extractive Search over Biomedical Corpora

Hillel Taub Tabib, Micah Shlain, Shoval Sadde, Dan Lahav, Matan Eyal, Yaara Cohen, Yoav Goldberg


Abstract
We present a system that allows life-science researchers to search a linguistically annotated corpus of scientific texts using patterns over dependency graphs, as well as using patterns over token sequences and a powerful variant of boolean keyword queries. In contrast to previous attempts to dependency-based search, we introduce a light-weight query language that does not require the user to know the details of the underlying linguistic representations, and instead to query the corpus by providing an example sentence coupled with simple markup. Search is performed at an interactive speed due to efficient linguistic graph-indexing and retrieval engine. This allows for rapid exploration, development and refinement of user queries. We demonstrate the system using example workflows over two corpora: the PubMed corpus including 14,446,243 PubMed abstracts and the CORD-19 dataset, a collection of over 45,000 research papers focused on COVID-19 research. The system is publicly available at https://allenai.github.io/spike
Anthology ID:
2020.bionlp-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
Venue:
BioNLP
SIG:
SIGBIOMED
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
28–37
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.bionlp-1.3
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.bionlp-1.3
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Cite (ACL):
Hillel Taub Tabib, Micah Shlain, Shoval Sadde, Dan Lahav, Matan Eyal, Yaara Cohen, and Yoav Goldberg. 2020. Interactive Extractive Search over Biomedical Corpora. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGBioMed Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, pages 28–37, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Interactive Extractive Search over Biomedical Corpora (Taub Tabib et al., BioNLP 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.bionlp-1.3.pdf
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Data
CORD-19