Biomedical Named Entity Recognition with Multilingual BERT
: Hakala Kai, Pyysalo Sampo
: Kim Jin-Dong, Nédellec Claire, Bossy Robert, Deléger Louise
: Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks
: 2019
: Proceedings of The 5th Workshop on BioNLP Open Shared Tasks
: 56
: 61
: 978-1-950737-82-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-5709
: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-5709/
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/45040320
We present the approach of the Turku NLP group to the PharmaCoNER task on Spanish biomedical named entity recognition. We apply a CRF-based baseline approach and multilingual BERT to the task, achieving an F-score of 88% on the development data and 87% on the test set with BERT. Our approach reflects a straightforward application of a state-of-the-art multilingual model that is not specifically tailored to either the language nor the application domain. The source code is available at: https://github.com/chaanim/pharmaconer