End-to-End $n$-ary Relation Extraction for Combination Drug Therapies

Understand

Combination drug therapies are treatment regimens that involve two or more drugs, administered more commonly for patients with cancer, HIV, malaria, or tuberculosis.

• Currently there are over 350K articles in PubMed that use the "combination drug therapy" MeSH heading with at least 10K articles published per year over the past two decades.
• Extracting combination therapies from scientific literature inherently constitutes an $n$-ary relation extraction problem.
• Unlike in the general $n$-ary setting where $n$ is fixed (e.g., drug-gene-mutation relations where $n=3$), extracting combination therapies is a special setting where $n \geq 2$ is dynamic, depending on each instance.