Data-driven Coreference-based Ontology Building
Shir Ashury Tahan, Amir David Nissan Cohen, Nadav Cohen, Yoram Louzoun, Yoav Goldberg
Abstract
While coreference resolution is traditionally used as a component in individual document understanding, in this work we take a more global view and explore what can we learn about a domain from the set of all document-level coreference relations that are present in a large corpus. We derive coreference chains from a corpus of 30 million biomedical abstracts and construct a graph based on the string phrases within these chains, establishing connections between phrases if they co-occur within the same coreference chain. We then use the graph structure and the betweeness centrality measure to distinguish between edges denoting hierarchy, identity and noise, assign directionality to edges denoting hierarchy, and split nodes (strings) that correspond to multiple distinct concepts. The result is a rich, data-driven ontology over concepts in the biomedical domain, parts of which overlaps significantly with human-authored ontologies. We release the coreference chains and resulting ontology under a creative-commons license.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ashury-tahan-etal-2024-data,
title = "Data-driven Coreference-based Ontology Building",
author = "Ashury Tahan, Shir and
Cohen, Amir David Nissan and
Cohen, Nadav and
Louzoun, Yoram and
Goldberg, Yoav",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.834/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.834",
pages = "14290--14300"
}