An improved RL-based framework for multiple biomedical event extraction via self-supervised learning

Abstract

The main goal of biomedical event extraction is to structurally extract biomedical events from texts, however, the specificity of the domain makes both text modeling and data annotation very difficult. We propose a self-supervised learning-based data augmentation method in this paper and design specific augmentation strategies for biomedical entities and event triggers in biomedical texts, which solves the problem of sparse annotation data to some extent. In addition we improve the reinforcement learning-based event extraction method to improve the training efficiency of the model. The experiments on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.