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Discovering Inconsistencies in PubMed Abstracts Through Ontology-Based Information Extraction

Nisansa de Silva, Dejing Dou, Jingshan Huang
Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

Searching for a cure for cancer is one of the most vital pursuits in modern medicine. In that aspect microRNA research plays a key role. Keeping track of the shifts and changes in established knowledge in the microRNA domain is very important. In this paper, we introduce an Ontology-Based Information Extraction method to detect occurrences of inconsistencies in microRNA research paper abstracts. We propose a method to first use the Ontology for MIcroRNA Targets (OMIT) to extract triples from the abstracts. Then we introduce a new algorithm to calculate the oppositeness of these candidate relationships. Finally we present the discovered inconsistencies in an easy to read manner to be used by medical professionals. To our best knowledge, this study is the first ontology-based information extraction model introduced to find shifts in the established knowledge in the medical domain using research paper abstracts. We downloaded 36877 abstracts from the PubMed database. From those, we found 102 inconsistencies relevant to the microRNA domain.

Keywords: Natural Language Processing | Bioinformatics | Ontologies | Semantic Oppositeness | Information Extraction |

@inproceedings{de2017Discovering,
 author={de Silva, Nisansa and Dou, Dejing and Huang, Jingshan},
 title={{Discovering Inconsistencies in PubMed Abstracts Through Ontology-Based Information Extraction}},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics},
 year={2017},
 series={ACM-BCB 17},
 location={Boston, Massachusetts, USA},
 pages={362--371},
 numpages={10},
 acmid={3107452},
 publisher={ACM},
 address={New York, NY, USA},
 keywords={information extraction, miRNA, ontology, pubmed, semantic oppositeness},
  abstract={Searching for a cure for cancer is one of the most vital pursuits in modern medicine. In that aspect microRNA research plays a key role. Keeping track of the shifts and changes in established knowledge in the microRNA domain is very important. In this paper, we introduce an Ontology-Based Information Extraction method to detect occurrences of inconsistencies in microRNA research paper abstracts. We propose a method to first use the Ontology for MIcroRNA Targets (OMIT) to extract triples from the abstracts. Then we introduce a new algorithm to calculate the oppositeness of these candidate relationships. Finally we present the discovered inconsistencies in an easy to read manner to be used by medical professionals. To our best knowledge, this study is the first ontology-based information extraction model introduced to find shifts in the established knowledge in the medical domain using research paper abstracts. We downloaded 36877 abstracts from the PubMed database. From those, we found 102 inconsistencies relevant to the microRNA domain.},
  misc={https://goo.gl/oqZ6oN,NLP:BIO:ONT,https://i1.rgstatic.net/publication/319284278_Discovering_Inconsistencies_in_PubMed_Abstracts_through_Ontology-Based_Information_Extraction/links/59a8eacca6fdcc23983884de/largepreview.png},
  doi={10.1145/3107411.3107452}
} 



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