• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.251-275
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a novel kernel called a semantic parse tree kernel that extends the parse tree kernel previously studied to extract protein-protein interactions(PPIs) and shown prominent results. Among the drawbacks of the existing parse tree kernel is that it could degenerate the overall performance of PPI extraction because the kernel function may produce lower kernel values of two sentences than the actual analogy between them due to the simple comparison mechanisms handling only the superficial aspects of the constituting words. The new kernel can compute the lexical semantic similarity as well as the syntactic analogy between two parse trees of target sentences. In order to calculate the lexical semantic similarity, it incorporates context-based word sense disambiguation producing synsets in WordNet as its outputs, which, in turn, can be transformed into more general ones. In experiments, we introduced two new parameters: tree kernel decay factors, and degrees of abstracting lexical concepts which can accelerate the optimization of PPI extraction performance in addition to the conventional SVM's regularization factor. Through these multi-strategic experiments, we confirmed the pivotal role of the newly applied parameters. Additionally, the experimental results showed that semantic parse tree kernel is superior to the conventional kernels especially in the PPI classification tasks.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.988-992
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• 2009

In this paper, we attempted to extract binary relations between terminologies using composite kernels consisting of convolution parse tree kernels and WordNet verb synset vector kernels which explain the semantic relationships between two entities in a sentence. In order to evaluate the performance of our system, we used three domain specific test collections. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our system in all the targeted collection. Especially, the increase in the effectiveness on KREC 2008, 8% in F1, shows that the core contexts around the entities play an important role in boosting the entire performance of relation extraction.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.642-652
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• 2009

In order to improve the performance of the existing relation extraction approaches, we propose a method for combining two pivotal concepts which play an important role in classifying semantic relationships between entities in text. Having built a composite kernel-based relation extraction system, which incorporates both entity features and syntactic structured information of relation instances, we define nine classes of lexical features and synthetically apply them to the system. Evaluation on the ACE RDC corpus shows that our approach boosts the effectiveness of the existing composite kernels in relation extraction. It also confirms that by integrating the three important features (entity features, syntactic structures and contextual lexical features), we can improve the performance of a relation extraction process.