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Structured Multi-Label Biomedical Text Tagging via Attentive Neural Tree Decoding

2018-10-02EMNLP 2018Code Available0· sign in to hype

Gaurav Singh, James Thomas, Iain J. Marshall, John Shawe-Taylor, Byron C. Wallace

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We propose a model for tagging unstructured texts with an arbitrary number of terms drawn from a tree-structured vocabulary (i.e., an ontology). We treat this as a special case of sequence-to-sequence learning in which the decoder begins at the root node of an ontological tree and recursively elects to expand child nodes as a function of the input text, the current node, and the latent decoder state. In our experiments the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on the important task of automatically assigning MeSH terms to biomedical abstracts.

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