Tang, Difei
(2023)
Automated Translation Framework for Biological Event Annotation.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Computational modeling improves our understanding of the components and dynamics of biological systems. However, current biological models are restricted in size and scope due to limitations resulting from manual curation and validation. While natural language processing (NLP) techniques now have the ability to capture detailed semantics by event extraction from large amounts of rapidly processed text, a gap still exists between these NLP event representations and modeling formalisms. If the events contained in the natural language of published biomedical literature, related scientific articles, could be extracted and translated accurately into generic representation of biological knowledge, the impact on computational modeling and analysis of complex biological systems would be significant.
In this thesis, we develop a standardized framework for translating the events found in semantic NLP event annotations. To capture complex event structures, especially nested events in which one event causes another, we first present an intermediate graph representation. Our framework then enables the extraction of causal interactions between biological entities by defining a set of translation rules. We also develop a SBML-compatible network format for creating reaction models from events. With this network, we extend the existing methods to facilitate the conversion from events to SBML reaction model. Here, we briefly introduce our approach and investigate how well event annotations can be translated into other representation formats without incorporating information from any external resources. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework by the automatic translation of selected event annotations. By standardizing the translation of events from NLP extractions, we propose this as a generalizable, scalable method for rapid, large-scale integration of knowledge on biological events extracted from literature.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
13 June 2023 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
12 April 2023 |
| Approval Date: |
13 June 2023 |
| Submission Date: |
4 April 2023 |
| Access Restriction: |
1 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 1 year. |
| Number of Pages: |
59 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Swanson School of Engineering > Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Degree: |
MS - Master of Science |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Event Extraction, knowledge representation, biological modeling |
| Date Deposited: |
13 Jun 2023 14:21 |
| Last Modified: |
13 Jun 2024 05:15 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/44418 |
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