BERT Biolink Embeddings

Description

This embeddings component was trained on PubMed abstracts all along with citation link information. The model was introduced in this paper, achieving state-of-the-art performance on several biomedical NLP benchmarks such as BLURB and MedQA-USMLE.

Predicted Entities

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How to use

embeddings = BertEmbeddings.pretrained("bert_biolink_large", "en")\
.setInputCols(["sentence", "token"])\
.setOutputCol("embeddings")
val embeddings = BertEmbeddings.pretrained("bert_biolink_large", "en")
.setInputCols(Array("sentence", "token"))
.setOutputCol("embeddings")
import nlu
nlu.load("en.embed.ge").predict("""Put your text here.""")

Model Information

Model Name: bert_biolink_large
Compatibility: Spark NLP 3.4.2+
License: Open Source
Edition: Official
Input Labels: [sentence, token]
Output Labels: [embeddings]
Language: en
Size: 1.3 GB
Case sensitive: true
Max sentence length: 512

References

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

@InProceedings{yasunaga2022linkbert,
author =  {Michihiro Yasunaga and Jure Leskovec and Percy Liang},
title =   {LinkBERT: Pretraining Language Models with Document Links},
year =    {2022},  
booktitle = {Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},  
}

Benchmarking

Scores for several benchmark datasets :

- BLURB : 84.30
- PubMedQA : 72.2
- BioASQ : 94.8
- MedQA-USMLE : 44.6