The Language of Bioscience: Facts, Speculations, and Statements in Between
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational LinguisticsPublished 6 May 2004
Marc Light, X. Qiu, Padmini Srinivasan
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We explore the use of speculative language in MEDLINE abstracts. Results from a manual annotation experiment suggest that the notion of speculative sentence can be reliably annotated by humans. In addition, an experiment with automated methods also suggest that reliable automated methods might also be developed. Distributional observations are also presented as well as a discussion of possible uses for a system that can recognize speculative language.
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