| Title: |
Literature mining of protein-residue associations with graph rules learned through distant supervision |
| Authors: |
Ravikumar, KE; Liu, Haibin; Cohn, Judith D; Wall, Michael E; Verspoor, Karin |
| Publisher Information: |
BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Publication Year: |
2012 |
| Collection: |
BioMed Central |
| Description: |
Background We propose a method for automatic extraction of protein-specific residue mentions from the biomedical literature. The method searches text for mentions of amino acids at specific sequence positions and attempts to correctly associate each mention with a protein also named in the text. The methods presented in this work will enable improved protein functional site extraction from articles, ultimately supporting protein function prediction. Our method made use of linguistic patterns for identifying the amino acid residue mentions in text. Further, we applied an automated graph-based method to learn syntactic patterns corresponding to protein-residue pairs mentioned in the text. We finally present an approach to automated construction of relevant training and test data using the distant supervision model. Results The performance of the method was assessed by extracting protein-residue relations from a new automatically generated test set of sentences containing high confidence examples found using distant supervision. It achieved a F-measure of 0.84 on automatically created silver corpus and 0.79 on a manually annotated gold data set for this task, outperforming previous methods. Conclusions The primary contributions of this work are to (1) demonstrate the effectiveness of distant supervision for automatic creation of training data for protein-residue relation extraction, substantially reducing the effort and time involved in manual annotation of a data set and (2) show that the graph-based relation extraction approach we used generalizes well to the problem of protein-residue association extraction. This work paves the way towards effective extraction of protein functional residues from the literature. |
| Document Type: |
report |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/3/S3/S2 |
| Availability: |
http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/3/S3/S2 |
| Rights: |
Copyright 2012 Ravikumar etal.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.A73724DB |
| Database: |
BASE |