Transfer Learning for Scientific Data Chain Extraction in Small Chemical Corpus with BERT-CRF Model

Subjects: Computer Science >> Natural Language Understanding and Machine Translation submitted time 2019-05-12

Na Pang Li Qian Weimin Lyu Jin-Dong Yang

Abstract： Abstract. Computational chemistry develops fast in recent years due to the rapid growth and breakthroughs in AI. Thanks for the progress in natural language processing, researchers can extract more fine-grained knowledge in publications to stimulate the development in computational chemistry. While the works and corpora in chemical entity extraction have been restricted in the biomedicine or life science field instead of the chemistry field, we build a new corpus in chemical bond field anno- tated for 7 types of entities: compound, solvent, method, bond, reaction, pKa and pKa value. This paper presents a novel BERT-CRF model to build scientific chemical data chains by extracting 7 chemical entities and relations from publications. And we propose a joint model to ex- tract the entities and relations simultaneously. Experimental results on our Chemical Special Corpus demonstrate that we achieve state-of-art and competitive NER performance.

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