A deep learning approach for sentence classification of scientific abstracts

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 recu...

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Main Author: Goncalves, Sergio (author)
Other Authors: Cortez, Paulo (author), Moro, Sergio (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/62769
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/62769
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Summary: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.