Obiettivo Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a critical tool in natural language processing (NLP) for a wide variety of language technologies, from syntax to semantics to pragmatics. In particular, in the field of natural language inference (NLI), DNNs have become the de-facto model, providing significantly better results than previous paradigms. Their power lies in their ability to embed complex language ambiguities in high dimensional spaces coupled with non-linear compositional transformations learned to directly optimize task-specific objective functions. We propose to adapt Deep NLI techniques to the biomedical domain, specifically investigating question answering, information extraction and synthesis. The biomedical domain presents many key challenges and a critical impact that standard NLI challenges do not posses. First, while standard NLI data sets requires a system to model basic world knowledge (e.g. that ‘soccer’ is a ‘sport’), they do not presume a rich domain knowledge encoded in various and often heterogeneous resources such as scientific articles, textbooks and structured databases. Second, while standard NLI data sets presume that the answer/inference is encoded in a single utterance, the ability to reason and extract information from biomedical domains often requires information synthesis from multiple utterances, paragraphs, and even documents. Finally, whereas standard NLI is a broad challenge aimed at testing whether computers can make general inferences in language, biomedical texts are a grounded and impactful domain where progress in automated reasoning will directly impact the efficacy of researchers, physicians, publishers and policy makers. Campo scientifico natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural language processingnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence Parole chiave Biomedical information extraction question answering natural language inference deep learning Programma(i) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Argomento(i) MSCA-IF-2016 - Individual Fellowships Invito a presentare proposte H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinatore ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS - RESEARCH CENTER Contribution nette de l'UE € 82 326,60 Indirizzo KEFALLINIAS STREET 46 11251 Athens Grecia Mostra sulla mappa Regione Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Partecipazione a programmi di R&I dell'UE Opens in new window Rete di collaborazione HORIZON Opens in new window Costo totale € 82 326,60