Query selection methods for automated corpora construction with a use case in food-drug interactions

Georgeta Bordea, Tsanta Randriatsitohaina, Fleur Mougin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon


Abstract
In this paper, we address the problem of automatically constructing a relevant corpus of scientific articles about food-drug interactions. There is a growing number of scientific publications that describe food-drug interactions but currently building a high-coverage corpus that can be used for information extraction purposes is not trivial. We investigate several methods for automating the query selection process using an expert-curated corpus of food-drug interactions. Our experiments show that index term features along with a decision tree classifier are the best approach for this task and that feature selection approaches and in particular gain ratio outperform frequency-based methods for query selection.
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W19-5013
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Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task
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August
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP
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SIGBIOMED
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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115–124
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-5013
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-5013
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Georgeta Bordea, Tsanta Randriatsitohaina, Fleur Mougin, Natalia Grabar, and Thierry Hamon. 2019. Query selection methods for automated corpora construction with a use case in food-drug interactions. In Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task, pages 115–124, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Query selection methods for automated corpora construction with a use case in food-drug interactions (Bordea et al., BioNLP 2019)
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