ChEMU: Named entity recognition and event extraction of chemical reactions from patents

Dat Quoc Nguyen, Zenan Zhai, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Biaoyan Fang, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Saber A. Akhondi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

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Abstract

We introduce a new evaluation lab named ChEMU (Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University), part of the 11th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2020). ChEMU involves two key information extraction tasks over chemical reactions from patents. Task 1—Named entity recognition—involves identifying chemical compounds as well as their types in context, i.e., to assign the label of a chemical compound according to the role which the compound plays within a chemical reaction. Task 2—Event extraction over chemical reactions—involves event trigger detection and argument recognition. We briefly present the motivations and goals of the ChEMU tasks, as well as resources and evaluation methodology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Proceedings
EditorsJoemon M. Jose, Emine Yilmaz, João Magalhães, Flávio Martins, Pablo Castells, Nicola Ferro, Mário J. Silva
PublisherSpringer
Pages572-579
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030454418
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: Apr 14 2020Apr 17 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12036 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period04/14/2004/17/20

Keywords

  • Chemical reactions
  • Event extraction
  • Named entity recognition
  • Patents

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