Classifying semantic relations in bioscience texts

  • Authors:
  • Barbara Rosario;Marti A. Hearst

  • Affiliations:
  • UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A crucial step toward the goal of automatic extraction of propositional information from natural language text is the identification of semantic relations between constituents in sentences. We examine the problem of distinguishing among seven relation types that can occur between the entities "treatment" and "disease" in bioscience text, and the problem of identifying such entities. We compare five generative graphical models and a neural network, using lexical, syntactic, and semantic features, finding that the latter help achieve high classification accuracy.