Mining Health-related Cause-Effect Statements with High Precision at Large Scale

Ferdinand Schlatt, Dieter Bettin, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast


Abstract
An efficient assessment of the health relatedness of text passages is important to mine the web at scale to conduct health sociological analyses or to develop a health search engine. We propose a new efficient and effective termhood score for predicting the health relatedness of phrases and sentences, which achieves 69% recall at over 90% precision on a web dataset with cause-effect statements. It is more effective than state-of-the-art medical entity linkers and as effective but much faster than BERT-based approaches. Using our method, we compile the Webis Medical CauseNet 2022, a new resource of 7.8 million health-related cause-effect statements such as “Studies show that stress induces insomnia” in which the cause (‘stress’) and effect (‘insomnia’) are labeled.
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2022.coling-1.167
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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1925–1936
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.167
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Ferdinand Schlatt, Dieter Bettin, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein, and Martin Potthast. 2022. Mining Health-related Cause-Effect Statements with High Precision at Large Scale. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 1925–1936, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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