Combining syntactic information and domain-specific lexical patterns to extract drug-drug interactions from biomedical texts

  • Authors:
  • Isabel Segura-Bedmar;Paloma Martínez;César de Pablo-Sánchez

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

  • Venue:
  • DTMBIO '10 Proceedings of the ACM fourth international workshop on Data and text mining in biomedical informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A drug-drug interaction (DDI) occurs when one drug influences the level or activity of another drug. The increasing volume of the scientific literature overwhelms health care professionals trying to be kept up-to-date with all published studies on DDI. Information Extraction (IE) techniques can provide an interesting way of reducing the time spent by health care professionals on reviewing the literature. Nevertheless, no approach has been carried out to extract DDI from texts. To the best of our knowledge, this work proposes the first integral solution for the automatic extraction of DDI from biomedical texts.