A Multitask Deep Learning Framework for DNER

Abstract

Over the years, the explosive growth of drug-related text information has resulted in heavy loads of work for manual data processing. However, the domain knowledge hidden is believed to be crucial to biomedical research and applications. In this article, the multi-DTR model that can accurately recognize drug-specific name by joint modeling of DNER and DNEN was proposed. Character features were extracted by CNN out of the input text, and the context-sensitive word vectors were obtained using ELMo. Next, the pretrained biomedical words were embedded into BiLSTM-CRF and the output labels were interacted to update the task parameters until DNER and DNEN would support each other. The proposed method was found with better performance on the DDI2011 and DDI2013 datasets.