Multi-Task Learning for Chemical Named Entity Recognition with Chemical Compound Paraphrasing

Abstract

We propose a method to improve named entity recognition (NER) for chemical compounds using multi-task learning by jointly training a chemical NER model and a chemical compound name paraphrase model. Our method enables the NER model to capture chemical compound paraphrases by sharing the parameters of NER and the character embeddings based on long short-term memories (LSTM) with the paraphrase model. Experimental results on BioCreative IV CHEMDNER show that our method learning paraphrase contributes to improved accuracy.