GCN with External Knowledge for Clinical Event Detection

Liu Dan, Zhang Zhichang, Peng Hui, Han Ruirui


Abstract
In recent years with the development of deep learning and the increasing demand for medical information acquisition in medical information technology applications such as clinical decision support Clinical Event Detection has been widely studied as its subtask. However directly applying advances in deep learning to Clinical Event Detection tasks often produces undesirable results. This paper proposes a multi-granularity information fusion encoder-decoder frameworkthat introduces external knowledge. First the word embedding generated by the pre-trained biomedical language representation model (BioBERT) and the character embedding generatedby the Convolutional Neural Network are spliced. And then perform Part-of-Speech attention coding for character-level embedding perform semantic Graph Convolutional Network codingfor the spliced character-word embedding. Finally the information of these three parts is fusedas Conditional Random Field input to generate the sequence label of the word. The experimental results on the 2012 i2b2 data set show that the model in this paper is superior to other existingmodels. In addition the model in this paper alleviates the problem that “occurrence” event typeseem more difficult to detect than other event types.
Anthology ID:
2021.ccl-1.106
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Proceedings of the 20th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Huhhot, China
Editors:
Sheng Li (李生), Maosong Sun (孙茂松), Yang Liu (刘洋), Hua Wu (吴华), Kang Liu (刘康), Wanxiang Che (车万翔), Shizhu He (何世柱), Gaoqi Rao (饶高琦)
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CCL
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Chinese Information Processing Society of China
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1190–1201
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.ccl-1.106
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Liu Dan, Zhang Zhichang, Peng Hui, and Han Ruirui. 2021. GCN with External Knowledge for Clinical Event Detection. In Proceedings of the 20th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1190–1201, Huhhot, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
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GCN with External Knowledge for Clinical Event Detection (Dan et al., CCL 2021)
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