Building a PubMed knowledge graph

Jian Xu, Sunkyu Kim, Min Song, Minbyul Jeong, Donghyeon Kim, Jaewoo Kang, Justin F. Rousseau, Xin Li, Weijia Xu, Vetle I. Torvik, Yi Bu, Chongyan Chen, Islam Akef Ebeid, Daifeng Li, Ying Ding

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    Abstract

    PubMed® is an essential resource for the medical domain, but useful concepts are either difficult to extract or are ambiguous, which has significantly hindered knowledge discovery. To address this issue, we constructed a PubMed knowledge graph (PKG) by extracting bio-entities from 29 million PubMed abstracts, disambiguating author names, integrating funding data through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ExPORTER, collecting affiliation history and educational background of authors from ORCID®, and identifying fine-grained affiliation data from MapAffil. Through the integration of these credible multi-source data, we could create connections among the bio-entities, authors, articles, affiliations, and funding. Data validation revealed that the BioBERT deep learning method of bio-entity extraction significantly outperformed the state-of-the-art models based on the F1 score (by 0.51%), with the author name disambiguation (AND) achieving an F1 score of 98.09%. PKG can trigger broader innovations, not only enabling us to measure scholarly impact, knowledge usage, and knowledge transfer, but also assisting us in profiling authors and organizations based on their connections with bio-entities.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number205
    JournalScientific data
    Volume7
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020 Jun 26

    Bibliographical note

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    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Statistics and Probability
    • Information Systems
    • Education
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
    • Library and Information Sciences

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