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A deep learning approach for sentence classification of scientific abstracts
Sérgio Gonçalves (Gonçalves, S.); Paulo Cortez (Cortez, P.); Sérgio Moro (Moro, S.);
Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2018
Year (definitive publication)
2018
Language
English
Country
Switzerland
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Abstract
The classification of abstract sentences is a valuable tool to support scientific database querying, to summarize relevant literature works and to assist in the writing of new abstracts. This study proposes a novel deep learning approach based on a convolutional layer and a bi-directional gated recurrent unit to classify sentences of abstracts. The proposed neural network was tested on a sample of 20 thousand abstracts from the biomedical domain. Competitive results were achieved, with weight-averaged precision, recall and F1-score values around 91%, which are higher when compared to a state-of-the-art neural network.
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Keywords
Bi-directional gated recurrent unit,Sentence classification,Text mining,Deep learning,Scientific articles
  • Computer and Information Sciences - Natural Sciences
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Funding Reference Funding Entity
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 COMPETE 2020
UID/MULTI/0446/2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
UID/CEC/00319/2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia