Abstract: Biomedical event extraction is one of the most significant and challenging tasks in biome- dical text information extraction, which has attracted more attentions in recent years. The two most important subtasks in biomedical event extraction are trigger recognition and argument detection. Most of the preceding methods consider trigger recognition as a classification task but ignore the sentence-level tag information. Therefore, a sequence labeling model based on bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) and conditional random field (CRF) is constructed for trigger recognition, which separately uses the static pre-trained word embedding combined with character-level word representation and the dynamic contextual word representation based on the pre-trained language model as model inputs. Meanwhile, for the event argument detection task, a self-attention based multi-classification model is proposed to make full use of the entity and entity type features. The F1-scores of trigger recognition and overall event extraction are 81.65% and 60.04% respectively, and the experimental results show that the proposed method is effective for biomedical event extraction.

Key words: biomedical event extraction, sequence labeling, contextual word representation, self- attention