language: multilingual

tags:

• biomedical
• lexical-semantics
• cross-lingual

datasets:

• UMLS

[news] A cross-lingual extension of SapBERT will appear in the main onference of ACL 2021 ! [news] SapBERT will appear in the conference proceedings of NAACL 2021 !

SapBERT-XLMR

SapBERT (Liu et al. 2021) trained with UMLS 2020AB, using xlm-roberta-large as the base model. Please use [CLS] as the representation of the input.

The following script converts a list of strings (entity names) into embeddings.

import numpy as np
import torch
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel  

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("cambridgeltl/SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext")  
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("cambridgeltl/SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext").cuda()

# replace with your own list of entity names
all_names = ["covid-19", "Coronavirus infection", "high fever", "Tumor of posterior wall of oropharynx"] 

bs = 128 # batch size during inference
all_embs = []
for i in tqdm(np.arange(0, len(all_names), bs)):
    toks = tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(all_names[i:i+bs], 
                                       padding="max_length", 
                                       max_length=25, 
                                       truncation=True,
                                       return_tensors="pt")
    toks_cuda = {}
    for k,v in toks.items():
        toks_cuda[k] = v.cuda()
    cls_rep = model(**toks_cuda)[0][:,0,:] # use CLS representation as the embedding
    all_embs.append(cls_rep.cpu().detach().numpy())

all_embs = np.concatenate(all_embs, axis=0)

For more details about training and eval, see SapBERT github repo .

Citation

@inproceedings{liu2021learning,
    title={Learning Domain-Specialised Representations for Cross-Lingual Biomedical Entity Linking},
    author={Liu, Fangyu and Vuli{\'c}, Ivan and Korhonen, Anna and Collier, Nigel},
    booktitle={Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021},
    month = aug,
    year={2021}
}