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Contextualized French Language Models for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition

Presented atNancy, 8-19 juin 2020
PublisherJEP/TALN/RECITAL : ATALA et AFCP
EditionATALA et AFCP
Publication date2020-06
First online date2020-06
Abstract

Named entity recognition (NER) is key for biomedical applications as it allows knowledge discovery in free text data. As entities are semantic phrases, their meaning is conditioned to the context to avoid ambiguity. In this work, we explore contextualized language models for NER in French biomedical text as part of the Défi Fouille de Textes challenge. Our best approach achieved an F1 -measure of 66% for symptoms and signs, and pathology categories, being top 1 for subtask 1. For anatomy, dose, exam, mode, moment, substance, treatment, and value categories, it achieved an F1 -measure of 75% (subtask 2). If considered all categories, our model achieved the best result in the challenge, with an F1 -measure of 72%. The use of an ensemble of neural language models proved to be very effective, improving a CRF baseline by up to 28% and a single specialised language model by 4

Keywords
  • Reconnaissance d’entités nommées
  • Encapsulation de mots contextualisés
  • CRF
  • BERT
  • CamemBERT
  • Named entity recognition
  • Contextualized word embeddings
  • CRF
  • BERT
  • Camem- BERT
Citation (ISO format)
COPARA ZEA, Jenny Linet et al. Contextualized French Language Models for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition. In: Actes de la 6e conférence conjointe Journées d’Études sur la Parole (JEP, 33e édition), Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN, 27e édition), Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL, 22e édition). Atelier DÉfi Fouille de Textes. Nancy. JEP/TALN/RECITAL : ATALA et AFCP, 2020. p. 36–48.
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