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Automatic Relationship Verification in Online Medical Knowledge Base: a Large Scale Study in SemMedDB

Zhang, Danchen and He, Daqing and Zou, Ning and Zhou, Xin and Pei, Fen (2018) Automatic Relationship Verification in Online Medical Knowledge Base: a Large Scale Study in SemMedDB. Automatic Relationship Verification in Online Medical Knowledge Base: a Large Scale Study in SemMedDB.

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Abstract

Automatically generated public medical knowledge bases (KBs), such as SemMedDB, are commonly used in various medical informatic tasks because of their comprehensive coverage. However, due to the imperfectness of the automatic algorithms for generating those KBs, they often contain noisy statements about medical concepts and relationships. For example, the extraction precision of SemRep, the tool used for constructing SemMedDB, is reported be 74.5%. Previous work focused on improving the algorithms for more accurate extraction. In this paper, however, we propose a supervised learning method to automatically verify the medical relationships. Through a study conducted on SemMedDB, we develop a method for generating a large set of training data with a relative small human labor annotation cost. We further propose nine features to characterize each medical relationship instance. After testing on several classifiers, our proposed methods can achieve the best F1 score and Accuracy at 80%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach. In summary, our study demonstrates that noisy relationships in large scale medical KBs can be identified and removed without much human involvement.


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Zhang, Danchendaz45@pitt.eduDAZ45
He, Daqingdah44@pitt.eduDAH44
Zou, NingNIZ19@pitt.eduniz19
Zhou, Xinxiz172@pitt.eduxiz172
Pei, Fenfep7@pitt.edufep7
Date: 2018
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: Automatic Relationship Verification in Online Medical Knowledge Base: a Large Scale Study in SemMedDB
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1109/bibm.2018.8621316
Schools and Programs: School of Information Sciences > Information Science
School of Information Sciences > Library and Information Science
School of Medicine > Computational Biology
Refereed: Yes
Article Type: Research Article
Date Deposited: 23 May 2019 18:36
Last Modified: 23 May 2019 18:36
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/36771

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