Recognizing speculative language in biomedical research articles: A linguistically motivated perspective

Halil Kilicoglu, Sabine Bergler

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Abstract

We explore a linguistically motivated approach to the problem of recognizing speculative language ("hedging") in biomedical research articles. We describe a method, which draws on prior linguistic work as well as existing lexical resources and extends them by introducing syntactic patterns and a simple weighting scheme to estimate the speculation level of the sentences. We show that speculative language can be recognized successfully with such an approach, discuss some shortcomings of the method and point out future research possibilities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBioNLP 2008 - Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages46-53
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781932432114
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2008 - Columbus, United States
Duration: Jun 19 2008 → …

Publication series

NameBioNLP 2008 - Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference2008 Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityColumbus
Period6/19/08 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Software
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics

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