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Terminology integration at the scale of the UMLS Metathesaurus (i.e., over 200 source vocabularies) remains challenging despite recent advances in ontology alignment techniques based on neural networks.
Objectives:
To improve the performance of the neural network architecture we developed for predicting synonymy between terms in the UMLS Metathesaurus, specifically through the addition of an attention layer.
Methods:
We modify our original Siamese neural network architecture with Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) and create two variants by (1) adding an attention layer on top of the existing LSTM, and (2) replacing the existing LSTM layer by an attention layer.
Results:
Adding an attention layer to the LSTM layer resulted in increasing precision to 92.38% (+3.63%) and F1 score to 91,74% (+1.13%), with limited impact on recall at 91.12% (-1.42%).
Conclusions:
Although limited, this increase in precision substantially reduces the false positive rate and minimizes the need for manual curation.
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