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Self-Adaptive Named Entity Recognition by Retrieving Unstructured Knowledge
Although named entity recognition (NER) helps us to extract domain-specific
entities from text (e.g., artists in the music domain), it is costly to create
a large amount of training data or a structured knowledge base to perform
accurate NER in the target domain. Here, we propose self-adaptive NER, which
retrieves external knowledge from unstructured text to learn the usages of
entities that have not been learned well. To retrieve useful knowledge for NER,
we design an effective two-stage model that retrieves unstructured knowledge
using uncertain entities as queries. Our model predicts the entities in the
input and then finds those of which the prediction is not confident. Then, it
retrieves knowledge by using these uncertain entities as queries and
concatenates the retrieved text to the original input to revise the prediction.
Experiments on CrossNER datasets demonstrated that our model outperforms strong
baselines by 2.35 points in F1 metric.Comment: EACL2023 (long
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Bispectral index-guided propofol sedation during endoscopic ultrasonography
Background/Aims Bispectral index (BIS) monitors process and display electroencephalographic data are used to assess the depth of anesthesia. This study retrospectively evaluated the usefulness of BIS monitoring during endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS). Methods This study included 725 consecutive patients who underwent EUS under sedation with propofol. BIS monitoring was used in 364 patients and was not used in 361. The following parameters were evaluated: (1) median dose of propofol; (2) respiratory and circulatory depression; (3) occurrence of body movements; (4) awakening score >8 at the time; and (5) awakening score 2 hours after leaving the endoscopy room. Results The BIS group received a significantly lower median dose of propofol than the non-BIS group (159.2 mg vs. 167.5 mg; p=0.015) in all age groups. For patients aged ≥75 years, the reduction in heart rate was significantly lower in the BIS group than in the non-BIS group (1.2% vs. 9.1%; p=0.023). Moreover, the occurrence of body movements was markedly lower in the BIS group than in the non-BIS group (8.5% vs. 39.4%; p<0.001). Conclusions During EUS examination, BIS monitoring is useful for maintaining a constant depth of anesthesia, especially in patients 75 years of age or older
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