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ENTROPY
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e21010037
Keywords
drug-drug interaction; convolutional neural network; dilated convolutions; cross-entropy; focal loss; relation extraction
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [61877050]
- Fund Program for the Scientific Activities of Selected Returned Overseas Professionals in Shaanxi Province [202160002]
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Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) may bring huge health risks and dangerous effects to a patient's body when taking two or more drugs at the same time or within a certain period of time. Therefore, the automatic extraction of unknown DDIs has great potential for the development of pharmaceutical agents and the safety of drug use. In this article, we propose a novel recurrent hybrid convolutional neural network (RHCNN) for DDI extraction from biomedical literature. In the embedding layer, the texts mentioning two entities are represented as a sequence of semantic embeddings and position embeddings. In particular, the complete semantic embedding is obtained by the information fusion between a word embedding and its contextual information which is learnt by recurrent structure. After that, the hybrid convolutional neural network is employed to learn the sentence-level features which consist of the local context features from consecutive words and the dependency features between separated words for DDI extraction. Lastly but most significantly, in order to make up for the defects of the traditional cross-entropy loss function when dealing with class imbalanced data, we apply an improved focal loss function to mitigate against this problem when using the DDIExtraction 2013 dataset. In our experiments, we achieve DDI automatic extraction with a micro F-score of 75.48% on the DDIExtraction 2013 dataset, outperforming the state-of-the-art approach by 2.49%.
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