ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents

Jiayuan He, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Yuan Li, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

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Abstract

Chemical patents serve as an indispensable source of information about new discoveries of chemical compounds. The ChEMU (Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University) lab addresses information extraction over chemical patents, and aims to advance the state of the art on this topic. ChEMU lab 2021, as part of the 12th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2021), will be the second ChEMU lab. ChEMU 2021 will provide two distinct tasks related to reference resolution in chemical patents. Task 1—Chemical Reaction Reference Resolution—focuses on paragraph-level references and aims to identify the chemical reactions or general conditions specified in one reaction description referred to by another. Task 2—Anaphora Resolution—focuses on expression-level references and aims to identify the reference relationships between expressions in chemical reaction descriptions. In this paper, we introduce ChEMU 2021, including its motivation, goals, tasks, resources, and evaluation framework.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Proceedings
EditorsDjoerd Hiemstra, Marie-Francine Moens, Josiane Mothe, Raffaele Perego, Martin Potthast, Fabrizio Sebastiani
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages608-615
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030722395
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Mar 28 2021Apr 1 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12657 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period03/28/2104/1/21

Keywords

  • Anaphora resolution
  • Chemical patents
  • Reaction reference resolution
  • Text mining

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