PurposeAutomatic keyphrase extraction (AKE) is an important task for grasping the main points of the text. In this paper, we aim to combine the benefits of sequence labeling formulation and pretrained language model to propose an automatic keyphrase extraction model for Chinese scientific research.Design/methodology/approachWe regard AKE from Chinese text as a character-level sequence labeling task to avoid segmentation errors of Chinese tokenizer and initialize our model with pretrained language model BERT, which was released by Google in 2018. We collect data from Chinese Science Citation Database and construct a large-scale dataset from medical domain, which contains 100,000 abstracts as training set, 6,000 abstracts as development set and 3,094 abstracts as test set. We use unsupervised keyphrase extraction methods including term frequency (TF), TF-IDF, TextRank and supervised machine learning methods including Conditional Random Field (CRF), Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory Network (BiLSTM), and BiLSTM-CRF as baselines. Experiments are designed to compare word-level and character-level sequence labeling approaches on supervised machine learning models and BERT-based models.FindingsCompared with character-level BiLSTM-CRF, the best baseline model with F1 score of 50.16%, our character-level sequence labeling model based on BERT obtains F1 score of 59.80%, getting 9.64% absolute improvement.Research limitationsWe just consider automatic keyphrase extraction task rather than keyphrase generation task, so only keyphrases that are occurred in the given text can be extracted. In addition, our proposed dataset is not suitable for dealing with nested keyphrases.Practical implicationsWe make our character-level IOB format dataset of Chinese Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from scientific Chinese medical abstracts (CAKE) publicly available for the benefits of research community, which is available at: https://github.com/possible1402/Dataset-For-Chinese-Medical-Keyphrase-Extraction.Originality/valueBy designing comparative experiments, our study demonstrates that character-level formulation is more suitable for Chinese automatic keyphrase extraction task under the general trend of pretrained language models. And our proposed dataset provides a unified method for model evaluation and can promote the development of Chinese automatic keyphrase extraction to some extent.
Purpose Move recognition in scientific abstracts is an NLP task of classifying sentences of the abstracts into different types of language units. To improve the performance of move recognition in scientific abstracts, a novel model of move recognition is proposed that outperforms the BERT-based method. Design/methodology/approach Prevalent models based on BERT for sentence classification often classify sentences without considering the context of the sentences. In this paper, inspired by the BERT masked language model (MLM), we propose a novel model called the masked sentence model that integrates the content and contextual information of the sentences in move recognition. Experiments are conducted on the benchmark dataset PubMed 20K RCT in three steps. Then, we compare our model with HSLN-RNN, BERT-based and SciBERT using the same dataset. Findings Compared with the BERT-based and SciBERT models, the F1 score of our model outperforms them by 4.96% and 4.34%, respectively, which shows the feasibility and effectiveness of the novel model and the result of our model comes closest to the state-of-the-art results of HSLN-RNN at present. Research limitations The sequential features of move labels are not considered, which might be one of the reasons why HSLN-RNN has better performance. Our model is restricted to dealing with biomedical English literature because we use a dataset from PubMed, which is a typical biomedical database, to fine-tune our model. Practical implications The proposed model is better and simpler in identifying move structures in scientific abstracts and is worthy of text classification experiments for capturing contextual features of sentences. Originality/value T he study proposes a masked sentence model based on BERT that considers the contextual features of the sentences in abstracts in a new way. The performance of this classification model is significantly improved by rebuilding the input layer without changing the structure of neural networks.
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