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Neural Networks for Joint Sentence Classification in Medical Paper Abstracts

2016-12-15EACL 2017Code Available0· sign in to hype

Franck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Peter Szolovits

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Existing models based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) for sentence classification often do not incorporate the context in which sentences appear, and classify sentences individually. However, traditional sentence classification approaches have been shown to greatly benefit from jointly classifying subsequent sentences, such as with conditional random fields. In this work, we present an ANN architecture that combines the effectiveness of typical ANN models to classify sentences in isolation, with the strength of structured prediction. Our model achieves state-of-the-art results on two different datasets for sequential sentence classification in medical abstracts.

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