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Overview of ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents
Y Li, B Fang, J He, H Yoshikawa, SA Akhondi, C Druckenbrodt, C Thorne, Z Afzal, Z Zhai, T Baldwin, K Verspoor
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Springer | Published : 2021
Abstract
In this paper, we provide an overview of the Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University (ChEMU) evaluation lab 2021, part of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2021 (CLEF 2021). The ChEMU evaluation lab focuses on information extraction over chemical reactions from patent texts. As the second instance of our ChEMU lab series, we build upon the ChEMU corpus developed for ChEMU 2020, extending it for two distinct tasks related to reference resolution in chemical patents. Task 1—Chemical Reaction Reference Resolution—focuses on paragraph-level references and aims to identify the chemical reactions or general conditions specified in one reaction description referred to by another..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Funding for the ChEMU project is provided by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project, project number LP160101469, and Elsevier. We acknowledge the support of our ChEMU-Ref annotators, Dr. Sacha Novakovic and Colleen Hui Shiuan Yeow at the University of Melbourne, and the annotation teams supporting the reaction reference task annotation.