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| Title | The Meta-knowledge of Causality in Biomedical Scientific Discourse |
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| Authors | Claudiu Mihăilă and Sophia Ananiadou |
| Abstract | Causality lies at the heart of biomedical knowledge, being involved in diagnosis, pathology or systems biology. Thus, automatic causality recognition can greatly reduce the human workload by suggesting possible causal connections and aiding in the curation of pathway models. For this, we rely on corpora that are annotated with classified, structured representations of important facts and findings contained within text. However, it is impossible to correctly interpret these annotations without additional information, e.g., classification of an event as fact, hypothesis, experimental result or analysis of results, confidence of authors about the validity of their analyses etc. In this study, we analyse and automatically detect this type of information, collectively termed meta-knowledge (MK), in the context of existing discourse causality annotations. Our effort proves the feasibility of identifying such pieces of information, without which the understanding of causal relations is limited. |
| Topics | Discourse Annotation, Representation and Processing, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval |
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The Meta-knowledge of Causality in Biomedical Scientific Discourse |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{MIHIL14.23, author = {Claudiu Mihăilă and Sophia Ananiadou}, title = {The Meta-knowledge of Causality in Biomedical Scientific Discourse}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)}, year = {2014}, month = {may}, date = {26-31}, address = {Reykjavik, Iceland}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4}, language = {english} } |