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Learning Structure and Schemas from Documents pp 205–225Cite as

Mining Biomedical Text towards Building a Quantitative Food-Disease-Gene Network

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 375))

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Advances in bio-technology and life sciences are leading to an ever-increasing volume of published research data, predominantly in unstructured text. To uncover the underlying knowledge base hidden in such data, text mining techniques have been utilized. Past and current efforts in this area have been largely focusing on recognizing gene and protein names, and identifying binary relationships among genes or proteins. In this chapter, we present an information extraction system that analyzes publications in an emerging discipline–Nutritional Genomics, a discipline that studies the interactions amongst genes, foods and diseases–aiming to build a quantitative food-disease-gene network. To this end, we adopt a host of techniques including natural language processing (NLP) techniques, domain ontology, and machine learning approaches.

Specifically, the proposed system is composed of four main modules: (1) named entity recognition, which extracts five types of entities including foods, chemicals, diseases, proteins and genes; (2) relationship extraction: A verb-centric approach is implemented to extract binary relationships between two entities; (3) relationship polarity and strength analysis: We have constructed novel features to capture the syntactic, semantic and structural aspects of a relationship. A 2-phase Support Vector Machine is then used to classify the polarity, whereas a Support Vector Regression learner is applied to rate the strength level of a relationship; and (4) relationship integration and visualization, which integrates the previously extracted relationships and realizes a preliminary user interface for intuitive observation and exploration.

Empirical evaluations of the first three modules demonstrate the efficacy of this system. The entity recognition module achieved a balanced precision and recall with an average F-score of 0.89. The average F-score of the extracted relationships is 0.905. Finally, an accuracy of 0.91 and 0.96 was achieved in classifying the relationship polarity and rating the relationship strength level, respectively..

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Yang, H., Swaminathan, R., Sharma, A., Ketkar, V., D‘Silva, J. (2011). Mining Biomedical Text towards Building a Quantitative Food-Disease-Gene Network. In: Biba, M., Xhafa, F. (eds) Learning Structure and Schemas from Documents. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22913-8_10

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