Learning Causal Relationships From Medical Abstracts

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Learning Causal Relationships From Medical
Abstracts
Medical Treatments

• Jonathan Elsas
• Jaime Arguello

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Modifications of current system

• Changed Seeds from causal contexts entity pairs
  to medical treatment contexts known
  relationships
• Refinement of how probabilities are estimated
  more stable
• insulin -gt diabetes
• _ is used to treat _ -gt
• _ is a treatment for _ -gt
• _ can be treated by _ lt-
• _ treatment of _ -gt

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Top 10 Results

• streptomycin -gt tuberculous
• penicillin -gt the treatment of
• penicillin -gt syphilis
• penicillin -gt the treatment
• group -gt alcoholism
• insulin -gt diabetics
• surgical -gt bilateral
• sulfone -gt leprosy
• streptomycin -gt in tuberculous
• of penicillin -gt syphilis
• hormone -gt gynecological

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Precision for top 50
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Precision for top 300