Clasificaci´ on conjunta de frases clave y sus relaciones
en documentos electr´ onicos de salud en espa˜ nol
Joint classification of Key-Phrases and Relations in
Electronic Health Documents
Salvador Medina
1
, Jordi Turmo
1
1
TALP Research Center - Universitat Polit` ecnica de Catalunya
smedina@cs.upc.edu y turmo@cs.upc.edu
Abstract: This paper describes the approach presented by the TALP team for Task
3 of TASS-2018 : a convolutional neural network to jointly deal with classification of
key-phrases and relationships in eHealth documents written in Spanish. The results
obtained are promising as we ranked in first place in scenarios 2 and 3.
Keywords: Relation extraction, joint classification, key-phrase classification, con-
volutional nerural networks.
Resumen: Este art´ ıculo describe el m´ etodo presentado por el equipo TALP en la
Tarea 3 de TASS-2018 : una red neuronal convolucional para tratar conjuntamente
la clasificaci´ on de frases clave y sus relaciones en documentos de salud escritos en
espa˜ nol. La propuesta qued´ o en primera posici´ on en los escenarios 2 y 3.
Palabras clave: Extracci´ on de relaciones, clasificaci´ on conjunta, clasificaci´ on de
frases clave, redes neuronales convolucionales.
1 Introduction
This article describes the model presented by
the TALP Team for solving B and C sub-
tasks of Task 3 in the Taller de An´alisis
Sem´antico en la SEPLN 2018 (TASS-2018)
(Mart´ ınez-C´amara et al., 2018). TASS-2018’s
Task 3 consists in recogniting and classifying
key-phrases as well as identifying the rela-
tionships between them in Electronic Health
Documents (i.e., eHealth documents) written
in Spanish. Task 3 is divided in sub-tasks
A, B and C, which correspond to key-phrase
boundary recognition, key-phrase classifica-
tion and relation detection, respectively.
In this task, a key-phrase stands for any
sub-phrase included in eHealth documents
that is relevant from the clinical viewpoint
and can be classified into Concept or Action.
The relationships between them are classified
into 6 types: 4 of them are between Concepts
(is-a, part-of, property-of and same-as ) whi-
le the rest are between an Action and anot-
her key-phrase (subject and target ). The pro-
posed task is similar to previous competi-
tions such as Semeval-2017 Task 10: Scien-
ceIE (Gonzalez-Hernandez et al., 2017), but
uses a simpler categorization for key-phrases
while considering a broader range of possible
relationships.
Participants in the Semeval-2017 Task 10:
ScienceIE (Gonzalez-Hernandez et al., 2017)
shared task considered a large plethora of su-
pervised learning models, ranging from Con-
volutional or Recurrent Neural Networks to
Support Vector Machines, Conditional Ran-
dom Fields and even rule-based systems, of-
ten applying radically different models for
each one of the three sub-tasks. Note that
some of the teams did not participate in all
three sub-tasks, this was in fact the case for
the winners of sub-tasks BC (MayoNLP (Liu
et al., 2017)) and C (MIT (Lee, Dernoncourt,
and Szolovits, 2017)).
1.1 Joint classification of
key-phrases and relationships
In our implementation we tackle both the
classification of key-phrases and the identi-
fication of the relationships between them,
corresponding to scenarios 2 and 3 of TASS
2018’s Task 3, as a single task. The intuition
behind this decision is that the categories of
key-phrases are influenced by the relations-
hips they hold with other key-phrases. For
instance, a verb is an Action key-phrase if
and only if it relates to another Action or
Concept by either being the subject or tar-
get, which means that sometimes phrases are
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