datasets:
- UMLS
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SapBERT-PubMedBERT
SapBERT by Liu et al. (2020). Trained with UMLS 2020AA (English only), using microsoft/BiomedNLP-PubMedBERT-base-uncased-abstract-fulltext as the base model.
Expected input and output
The input should be a string of biomedical entity names, e.g., "covid infection" or "Hydroxychloroquine". The [CLS] embedding of the last layer is regarded as the output.
Extracting embeddings from SapBERT
The following script converts a list of strings (entity names) into embeddings.
import numpy as np
import torch
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("cambridgeltl/SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("cambridgeltl/SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext").cuda()
# replace with your own list of entity names
all_names = ["covid-19", "Coronavirus infection", "high fever", "Tumor of posterior wall of oropharynx"]
bs = 128 # batch size during inference
all_embs = []
for i in tqdm(np.arange(0, len(all_names), bs)):
toks = tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(all_names[i:i+bs],
padding="max_length",
max_length=25,
truncation=True,
return_tensors="pt")
toks_cuda = {}
for k,v in toks.items():
toks_cuda[k] = v.cuda()
cls_rep = model(**toks_cuda)[0][:,0,:] # use CLS representation as the embedding
all_embs.append(cls_rep.cpu().detach().numpy())
all_embs = np.concatenate(all_embs, axis=0)
For more details about training and eval, see SapBERT github repo.
Citation
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2021-self,
title = "Self-Alignment Pretraining for Biomedical Entity Representations",
author = "Liu, Fangyu and
Shareghi, Ehsan and
Meng, Zaiqiao and
Basaldella, Marco and
Collier, Nigel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.naacl-main.334",
pages = "4228--4238",
abstract = "Despite the widespread success of self-supervised learning via masked language models (MLM), accurately capturing fine-grained semantic relationships in the biomedical domain remains a challenge. This is of paramount importance for entity-level tasks such as entity linking where the ability to model entity relations (especially synonymy) is pivotal. To address this challenge, we propose SapBERT, a pretraining scheme that self-aligns the representation space of biomedical entities. We design a scalable metric learning framework that can leverage UMLS, a massive collection of biomedical ontologies with 4M+ concepts. In contrast with previous pipeline-based hybrid systems, SapBERT offers an elegant one-model-for-all solution to the problem of medical entity linking (MEL), achieving a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on six MEL benchmarking datasets. In the scientific domain, we achieve SOTA even without task-specific supervision. With substantial improvement over various domain-specific pretrained MLMs such as BioBERT, SciBERTand and PubMedBERT, our pretraining scheme proves to be both effective and robust.",
}
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