Hedge Scope Detection in Biomedical Texts: An Effective Dependency-Based Method.

Hedge detection is used to distinguish uncertain information from facts, which is of essential importance in biomedical information extraction. The task of hedge detection is often divided into two subtasks: detecting uncertain cues and their linguistic scope. Hedge scope is a sequence of tokens inc...

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Main Authors: Huiwei Zhou, Huijie Deng, Degen Huang, Minling Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4517914?pdf=render