Detecting hedge cues and their scope in biomedical text with conditional random fields.

Objective: Hedging is frequently used in both the biological literature and clinical notes to denote uncertainty or speculation. It is important for text-mining applications to detect hedge cues and their scope; otherwise, uncertain events are incorrectly identified as factual events. However, due t...

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Published in:Journal of Biomedical Informatics Vol. 43; no. 6; pp. 953 - 962
Main Authors: Agarwal S, Yu H, Agarwal, Shashank, Yu, Hong
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Academic Press Inc. Dec2010
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