<![CDATA[Pharmacovigilance requires automated systems to extract biomedical entities and their relationships from text, as manual processes are inefficient and prone to error. This study develops a reproducible pipeline for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and pattern-based proxy relation formation, focusing on drug side effects related to breast cancer. The research contribution is twofold: a domain-specific annotated dataset for pharmacovigilance NER, and a reproducible pipeline for proxy-based relation analysis. The experimental setup combines MobileBERT, DistilBERT, TinyBERT, and ALBERT. Evaluation is conducted using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, ROC AUC, and computational efficiency metrics. The results show that ALBERT achieves the highest NER performance (F1-score = 0.9261), while DistilBERT attains the best ROC AUC (0.9037). TinyBERT is the most efficient model, with 4.57 million parameters, 4.68 G FLOPs, and an average training time of 45.8 seconds per scenario. The proposed pipeline demonstrates a trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency under the evaluated setting. The generated relations act as sentence-level proxy indicators of potential drug–adverse event associations and serve as a preliminary triage layer requiring expert validation rather than a high-precision system. However, the approach does not account for negation, uncertainty, or cross-sentence context, which may introduce false positive associations. Despite these limitations, the pipeline provides a reproducible baseline for exploratory pharmacovigilance analysis.]]>
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