@inproceedings{a714b6ae17e64f0195edbf35435211f9,
title = "EVIDENCEMINER: Textual Evidence Discovery for Life Sciences",
abstract = "Traditional search engines for life sciences (e.g., PubMed) are designed for document retrieval and do not allow direct retrieval of specific statements. Some of these statements may serve as textual evidence that is key to tasks such as hypothesis generation and new finding validation. We present EVIDENCEMINER, a web-based system that lets users query a natural language statement and automatically retrieves textual evidence from a background corpora for life sciences. EVIDENCEMINER is constructed in a completely automated way without any human effort for training data annotation. It is supported by novel data-driven methods for distantly supervised named entity recognition and open information extraction. The entities and patterns are pre-computed and indexed offline to support fast online evidence retrieval. The annotation results are also highlighted in the original document for better visualization. EVIDENCEMINER also includes analytic functionalities such as the most frequent entity and relation summarization. EVIDENCEMINER can help scientists uncover essential research issues, leading to more effective research and more in-depth quantitative analysis. The system of EVIDENCEMINER is available at https://evidenceminer.firebaseapp.com/1",
author = "Xuan Wang and Yingjun Guan and Weili Liu and Aabhas Chauhan and Enyi Jiang and Qi Li and David Liem and Dibakar Sigdel and Caufield, {J. Harry} and Peipei Ping and Jiawei Han",
note = "Funding Information: Research was sponsored in part by US DARPA KAIROS Program No. FA8750-19-2-1004 and SocialSim Program No. W911NF-17-C-0099, National Science Foundation IIS 16-18481, IIS 17-04532, and IIS-17-41317, and DTRA HD-TRA11810026. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views, either expressed or implied, of DARPA or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation hereon. Funding Information: Research was sponsored in part by US DARPA KAIROS Program No. FA8750-19-2-1004 and SocialSim Program No. W911NF-17-C-0099, National Science Foundation IIS 16-18481, IIS 17-04532, and IIS-17-41317, and DTRA HDTRA11810026. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views, either expressed or implied, of DARPA or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation hereon. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics; 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020 ; Conference date: 05-07-2020 Through 10-07-2020",
year = "2020",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "56--62",
booktitle = "ACL 2020 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the System Demonstrations",
}