An Adaptive Annotation Approach for Biomedical Entity and Relation Recognition

Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Ljiljana Majnaric, Sefket Sabanovic, Andreas Holzinger

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Abstract

In this article, we demonstrate the impact of interactive machine learning: we develop biomedical entity recognition dataset using a human-into-the-loop approach. In contrary to classical machine learning, human-in-the-loop approaches do not operate on predefined training or test sets, but assume that human input regarding system improvement is supplied iteratively. Here, during annotation, a machine learning model is built on previous annotations and used to propose labels for subsequent annotation. To demonstrate that such interactive and iterative annotation speeds up the development of quality dataset annotation, we conduct three experiments. In the first experiment, we carry out an iterative annotation experimental simulation and show that only a handful of medical abstracts need to be annotated to produce suggestions that increase annotation speed. In the second experiment, clinical doctors have conducted a case study in annotating medical terms documents relevant for their research. The third experiment explores the annotation of semantic relations with relation instance learning across documents. The experiments validate our method qualitatively and quantitatively, and give rise to a more personalized, responsive information extraction technology.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)157-168
JournalBrain Informatics
Volume3
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Interactive Annotation
  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Doctor-in-the-loop
  • Biomedical Entity Recognition
  • Knowledge Discovery
  • data mining
  • Relation learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)

  • Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)

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