Chinese Clinical Named Entity Recognition(CNER)is a crucial step in extracting medical information and is of great significance in promoting medical informatization.However,CNER poses challenges due to the specificity...Chinese Clinical Named Entity Recognition(CNER)is a crucial step in extracting medical information and is of great significance in promoting medical informatization.However,CNER poses challenges due to the specificity of clinical terminology,the complexity of Chinese text semantics,and the uncertainty of Chinese entity boundaries.To address these issues,we propose an improved CNER model,which is based on multi-feature fusion and multi-scale local context enhancement.The model simultaneously fuses multi-feature representations of pinyin,radical,Part of Speech(POS),word boundary with BERT deep contextual representations to enhance the semantic representation of text for more effective entity recognition.Furthermore,to address the model’s limitation of focusing just on global features,we incorporate Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)with various kernel sizes to capture multi-scale local features of the text and enhance the model’s comprehension of the text.Finally,we integrate the obtained global and local features,and employ multi-head attention mechanism(MHA)extraction to enhance the model’s focus on characters associated with medical entities,hence boosting the model’s performance.We obtained 92.74%,and 87.80%F1 scores on the two CNER benchmark datasets,CCKS2017 and CCKS2019,respectively.The results demonstrate that our model outperforms the latest models in CNER,showcasing its outstanding overall performance.It can be seen that the CNER model proposed in this study has an important application value in constructing clinical medical knowledge graph and intelligent Q&A system.展开更多
命名实体识别是自然语言处理中的一个关键。在需求文档中存在过长的实体:虚功能,使得普适的传统命名实体识别方法无法有效地识别得到完整的实体。本文针对需求文档实体识别模型进行深入研究,引入深度学习方法,提出基于深度残差网络(ResN...命名实体识别是自然语言处理中的一个关键。在需求文档中存在过长的实体:虚功能,使得普适的传统命名实体识别方法无法有效地识别得到完整的实体。本文针对需求文档实体识别模型进行深入研究,引入深度学习方法,提出基于深度残差网络(ResNet)的CNER方法与基于规则的方法相结合,进行针对中文需求文档的分词。本文的命名实体识别模型是一种编码-解码模型,使用带有注意力机制的双向长短期记忆网络(BiLSTM with attention)进行编码,得到分词后文本的上下文特征和句式特征,使用条件随机场(CRF)方法进行解码,再结合语法规约的干预进行需求文档实体识别。实验表明,所提方法在需求文档领域识别效果优于普适的传统方法。展开更多
Named entity recognition(NER)is an important part in knowledge extraction and one of the main tasks in constructing knowledge graphs.In today’s Chinese named entity recognition(CNER)task,the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model is ...Named entity recognition(NER)is an important part in knowledge extraction and one of the main tasks in constructing knowledge graphs.In today’s Chinese named entity recognition(CNER)task,the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model is widely used and often yields notable results.However,recognizing each entity with high accuracy remains challenging.Many entities do not appear as single words but as part of complex phrases,making it difficult to achieve accurate recognition using word embedding information alone because the intricate lexical structure often impacts the performance.To address this issue,we propose an improved Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)character word conditional random field(CRF)(BCWC)model.It incorporates a pre-trained word embedding model using the skip-gram with negative sampling(SGNS)method,alongside traditional BERT embeddings.By comparing datasets with different word segmentation tools,we obtain enhanced word embedding features for segmented data.These features are then processed using the multi-scale convolution and iterated dilated convolutional neural networks(IDCNNs)with varying expansion rates to capture features at multiple scales and extract diverse contextual information.Additionally,a multi-attention mechanism is employed to fuse word and character embeddings.Finally,CRFs are applied to learn sequence constraints and optimize entity label annotations.A series of experiments are conducted on three public datasets,demonstrating that the proposed method outperforms the recent advanced baselines.BCWC is capable to address the challenge of recognizing complex entities by combining character-level and word-level embedding information,thereby improving the accuracy of CNER.Such a model is potential to the applications of more precise knowledge extraction such as knowledge graph construction and information retrieval,particularly in domain-specific natural language processing tasks that require high entity recognition precision.展开更多
基金This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61911540482 and 61702324).
文摘Chinese Clinical Named Entity Recognition(CNER)is a crucial step in extracting medical information and is of great significance in promoting medical informatization.However,CNER poses challenges due to the specificity of clinical terminology,the complexity of Chinese text semantics,and the uncertainty of Chinese entity boundaries.To address these issues,we propose an improved CNER model,which is based on multi-feature fusion and multi-scale local context enhancement.The model simultaneously fuses multi-feature representations of pinyin,radical,Part of Speech(POS),word boundary with BERT deep contextual representations to enhance the semantic representation of text for more effective entity recognition.Furthermore,to address the model’s limitation of focusing just on global features,we incorporate Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)with various kernel sizes to capture multi-scale local features of the text and enhance the model’s comprehension of the text.Finally,we integrate the obtained global and local features,and employ multi-head attention mechanism(MHA)extraction to enhance the model’s focus on characters associated with medical entities,hence boosting the model’s performance.We obtained 92.74%,and 87.80%F1 scores on the two CNER benchmark datasets,CCKS2017 and CCKS2019,respectively.The results demonstrate that our model outperforms the latest models in CNER,showcasing its outstanding overall performance.It can be seen that the CNER model proposed in this study has an important application value in constructing clinical medical knowledge graph and intelligent Q&A system.
文摘命名实体识别是自然语言处理中的一个关键。在需求文档中存在过长的实体:虚功能,使得普适的传统命名实体识别方法无法有效地识别得到完整的实体。本文针对需求文档实体识别模型进行深入研究,引入深度学习方法,提出基于深度残差网络(ResNet)的CNER方法与基于规则的方法相结合,进行针对中文需求文档的分词。本文的命名实体识别模型是一种编码-解码模型,使用带有注意力机制的双向长短期记忆网络(BiLSTM with attention)进行编码,得到分词后文本的上下文特征和句式特征,使用条件随机场(CRF)方法进行解码,再结合语法规约的干预进行需求文档实体识别。实验表明,所提方法在需求文档领域识别效果优于普适的传统方法。
基金supported by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals under Grant No.CBAS2022GSP05the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science under Grant No.6142A01210404the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Geo-Information Processing under Grant No.KLIGIP-2022-B03.
文摘Named entity recognition(NER)is an important part in knowledge extraction and one of the main tasks in constructing knowledge graphs.In today’s Chinese named entity recognition(CNER)task,the BERT-BiLSTM-CRF model is widely used and often yields notable results.However,recognizing each entity with high accuracy remains challenging.Many entities do not appear as single words but as part of complex phrases,making it difficult to achieve accurate recognition using word embedding information alone because the intricate lexical structure often impacts the performance.To address this issue,we propose an improved Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)character word conditional random field(CRF)(BCWC)model.It incorporates a pre-trained word embedding model using the skip-gram with negative sampling(SGNS)method,alongside traditional BERT embeddings.By comparing datasets with different word segmentation tools,we obtain enhanced word embedding features for segmented data.These features are then processed using the multi-scale convolution and iterated dilated convolutional neural networks(IDCNNs)with varying expansion rates to capture features at multiple scales and extract diverse contextual information.Additionally,a multi-attention mechanism is employed to fuse word and character embeddings.Finally,CRFs are applied to learn sequence constraints and optimize entity label annotations.A series of experiments are conducted on three public datasets,demonstrating that the proposed method outperforms the recent advanced baselines.BCWC is capable to address the challenge of recognizing complex entities by combining character-level and word-level embedding information,thereby improving the accuracy of CNER.Such a model is potential to the applications of more precise knowledge extraction such as knowledge graph construction and information retrieval,particularly in domain-specific natural language processing tasks that require high entity recognition precision.
