Interactive Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs from Text: A Covid-19 Implementation

ABSTRACT

Information creation runs at a higher rate than information assimilation, creating an information gap for domain specialists that usual information frameworks such as search engines are unable to bridge. Knowledge graphs have been used to summarize large amounts of textual data, therefore facilitating information retrieval, but they require programming and machine learning skills not usually available to domains specialists. To bridge this gap, this work proposes a framework, KG4All (Knowledge Graphs for All), to allow for domain specialists to build and interact with a knowledge graph created from their own chosen corpus. In order to build the knowledge graph, a transition-based system model is used to extract and link medical entities, with tokens represented as embeddings from the prefix, suffix, shape and lemmatized features of individual words. We used abstracts from the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) as corpus to test the framework. The results include an online prototype and correspondent source code. Preliminary results show that it is possible to automate the extraction of entity relations from medical text and to build an interactive user knowledge graph without programming background. © 2021, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.