no code implementations • 7 Oct 2020 • Benjamin E. Nye, Jay DeYoung, Eric Lehman, Ani Nenkova, Iain J. Marshall, Byron C. Wallace
Here we consider the end-to-end task of both (a) extracting treatments and outcomes from full-text articles describing clinical trials (entity identification) and, (b) inferring the reported results for the former with respect to the latter (relation extraction).
1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Benjamin E. Nye, Ani Nenkova, Iain J. Marshall, Byron C. Wallace
We apply the system at scale to all reports of randomized controlled trials indexed in MEDLINE, powering the automatic generation of evidence maps, which provide a global view of the efficacy of different interventions combining data from all relevant clinical trials on a topic.