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license: apache-2.0 |
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language: |
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- en |
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tags: |
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- biomedical |
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- lexical semantics |
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- bionlp |
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- biology |
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- science |
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- embedding |
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- entity linking |
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datasets: |
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- UMLS |
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**[news]** A cross-lingual extension of SapBERT will appear in the main onference of **ACL 2021**! <br> |
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**[news]** SapBERT will appear in the conference proceedings of **NAACL 2021**! |
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### Expected input and output |
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The input should be a string of biomedical entity names, e.g., "covid infection" or "Hydroxychloroquine". The [CLS] embedding of the last layer is regarded as the output. |
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### SapBERT-PubMedBERT |
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SapBERT by [Liu et al. (2020)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11784.pdf). Trained with [UMLS](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/licensedcontent/umlsknowledgesources.html) 2020AA (English only), using [microsoft/BiomedNLP-PubMedBERT-base-uncased-abstract-fulltext](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/BiomedNLP-PubMedBERT-base-uncased-abstract-fulltext) as the base model. |
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### Citation |
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```bibtex |
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@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-self, |
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title = "Self-Alignment Pretraining for Biomedical Entity Representations", |
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author = "Liu, Fangyu and |
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Shareghi, Ehsan and |
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Meng, Zaiqiao and |
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Basaldella, Marco and |
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Collier, Nigel", |
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies", |
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month = jun, |
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year = "2021", |
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address = "Online", |
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publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", |
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url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.334", |
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pages = "4228--4238", |
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abstract = "Despite the widespread success of self-supervised learning via masked language models (MLM), accurately capturing fine-grained semantic relationships in the biomedical domain remains a challenge. This is of paramount importance for entity-level tasks such as entity linking where the ability to model entity relations (especially synonymy) is pivotal. To address this challenge, we propose SapBERT, a pretraining scheme that self-aligns the representation space of biomedical entities. We design a scalable metric learning framework that can leverage UMLS, a massive collection of biomedical ontologies with 4M+ concepts. In contrast with previous pipeline-based hybrid systems, SapBERT offers an elegant one-model-for-all solution to the problem of medical entity linking (MEL), achieving a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on six MEL benchmarking datasets. In the scientific domain, we achieve SOTA even without task-specific supervision. With substantial improvement over various domain-specific pretrained MLMs such as BioBERT, SciBERTand and PubMedBERT, our pretraining scheme proves to be both effective and robust.", |
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} |
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``` |