ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents

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Jiayuan He, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor (2021) ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents. In Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), virtual conference

@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-72240-1_71,
author="He, Jiayuan
and Fang, Biaoyan
and Yoshikawa, Hiyori
and Li, Yuan
and Akhondi, Saber A.
and Druckenbrodt, Christian
and Thorne, Camilo
and Afzal, Zubair
and Zhai, Zenan
and Cavedon, Lawrence
and Cohn, Trevor
and Baldwin, Timothy
and Verspoor, Karin",
editor="Hiemstra, Djoerd
and Moens, Marie-Francine
and Mothe, Josiane
and Perego, Raffaele
and Potthast, Martin
and Sebastiani, Fabrizio",
title="ChEMU 2021: Reaction Reference Resolution and Anaphora Resolution in Chemical Patents",
booktitle="Advances in Information Retrieval",
year="2021",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="608--615",
abstract="Chemical patents serve as an indispensable source of information about new discoveries of chemical compounds. The ChEMU (Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University) lab addresses information extraction over chemical patents, and aims to advance the state of the art on this topic. ChEMU lab 2021, as part of the 12th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2021), will be the second ChEMU lab. ChEMU 2021 will provide 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. Task 2---Anaphora Resolution---focuses on expression-level references and aims to identify the reference relationships between expressions in chemical reaction descriptions. In this paper, we introduce ChEMU 2021, including its motivation, goals, tasks, resources, and evaluation framework.",
isbn="978-3-030-72240-1"
}

Abstract

Chemical patents serve as an indispensable source of information about new discoveries of chemical compounds. The ChEMU (Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University) lab addresses information extraction over chemical patents, and aims to advance the state of the art on this topic. ChEMU lab 2021, as part of the 12th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2021), will be the second ChEMU lab. ChEMU 2021 will provide 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. Task 2—Anaphora Resolution—focuses on expression-level references and aims to identify the reference relationships between expressions in chemical reaction descriptions. In this paper, we introduce ChEMU 2021, including its motivation, goals, tasks, resources, and evaluation framework.