C-Norm: a neural approach to few-shot entity normalization
Open Access
- 28 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Bioinformatics
- Vol. 21 (S23), 1-19
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03886-8
Abstract
Background Entity normalization is an important information extraction task which has gained renewed attention in the last decade, particularly in the biomedical and life science domains. In these domains, and more generally in all specialized domains, this task is still challenging for the latest machine learning-based approaches, which have difficulty handling highly multi-class and few-shot learning problems. To address this issue, we propose C-Norm, a new neural approach which synergistically combines standard and weak supervision, ontological knowledge integration and distributional semantics. Results Our approach greatly outperforms all methods evaluated on the Bacteria Biotope datasets of BioNLP Open Shared Tasks 2019, without integrating any manually-designed domain-specific rules. Conclusions Our results show that relatively shallow neural network methods can perform well in domains that present highly multi-class and few-shot learning problems.Funding Information
- H2020 European Research Council (654021)
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