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Ingmar Brilmayer, Petra B. Schumacher
In discourse pragmatics, different referential forms are claimed to be indicative of the cognitive status of a referent in the current discourse. Referential expressions thereby possess a double function: They point back to an (existing) referent (form-to-function mapping), and they are used to derive predictions about…
Andrej A. Kibrik, Mariya V. Khudyakova, Grigory B. Dobrov, Anastasia Linnik + 1 more
'Anastasia Linnik' 'Dmitrij A. Zalmanov'] We report a study of referential choice in discourse production, understood as the choice between various types of referential devices, such as pronouns and full noun phrases. Our goal is to predict referential choice, and to explore to what extent such prediction is possible.…
Hale Ögel-Balaban, Ayhan Aksu-Koç
The present study examines the development of complex sentences with non-finite clause combining with particular focus on clause chaining, in narratives of 40 Turkish-speaking 4- to 11-year-olds and six adults elicited by a wordless picture book. Results show a gradual increase by age in the variety of clauses…
Yifan Peng, Manabu Torii, Cathy H Wu, K Vijay-Shanker
Background Text mining is increasingly used in the biomedical domain because of its ability to automatically gather information from large amount of scientific articles. One important task in biomedical text mining is relation extraction, which aims to identify designated relations among biological entities reported in…
Halil Kilicoglu, Graciela Rosemblat, Marcelo Fiszman, Thomas C. Rindflesch
'Thomas C. Rindflesch'] Background Entity coreference is common in biomedical literature and it can affect text understanding systems that rely on accurate identification of named entities, such as relation extraction and automatic summarization. Coreference resolution is a foundational yet challenging natural language…
Emar Maier
A number of puzzles about propositional attitudes in semantics and philosophy revolve around apparent referential dependencies between different attitudes within a single agent’s mental state. In a series of papers, Hans Kamp (2003… 2015) offers a general framework for describing such interconnected attitude complexes…
Halil Kilicoglu, Dina Demner-Fushman, Tudor Groza
Coreference resolution is one of the fundamental and challenging tasks in natural language processing. Resolving coreference successfully can have a significant positive effect on downstream natural language processing tasks, such as information extraction and question answering. The importance of coreference…
Thomas Lavergne, Cyril Grouin, Pierre Zweigenbaum
Background The acquisition of knowledge about relations between bacteria and their locations (habitats and geographical locations) in short texts about bacteria, as defined in the BioNLP-ST 2013 Bacteria Biotope task, depends on the detection of co-reference links between mentions of entities of each of these three…
Hannah S. Sarvasy, Soonja Choi
Clause chains are a special type of complex sentence, found in hundreds of languages outside Western Europe, in which clauses are dependent but not embedded, and dozens of clauses can be combined into a single sentential unit. Unlike English complex sentences, clause chains’ distribution is partially predictable in…
K. Bretonnel Cohen, Arrick Lanfranchi, Miji Joo-young Choi, Michael Bada + 5 more
'Michael Bada' 'William A. Baumgartner Jr.' 'Natalya Panteleyeva' 'Karin Verspoor' 'Martha Palmer' 'Lawrence E. Hunter'] Background Coreference resolution is the task of finding strings in text that have the same referent as other strings. Failures of coreference resolution are a common cause of false negatives in…
Kouji Kozaki, Yuki Yamagata, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Takeshi Imai + 1 more
'Kazuhiko Ohe'] Background Medical ontologies are expected to contribute to the effective use of medical information resources that store considerable amount of data. In this study, we focused on disease ontology because the complicated mechanisms of diseases are related to concepts across various medical domains. The…
Christopher W Maier, Jeffrey G Long, Bradley M Hemminger, Morgan C Giddings
'Morgan C Giddings'] Background Modern, high-throughput biological experiments generate copious, heterogeneous, interconnected data sets. Research is dynamic, with frequently changing protocols, techniques, instruments, and file formats. Because of these factors, systems designed to manage and integrate modern…
Huajun Chen, Xi Chen, Peiqin Gu, Zhaohui Wu + 1 more
Recently, huge amounts of data are generated in the domain of biology. Embedded with domain knowledge from different disciplines, the isolated biological resources are implicitly connected. Thus it has shaped a big network of versatile biological knowledge. Faced with such massive, disparate, and interlinked biological…
Robert Hoehndorf, Janet Kelso, Heinrich Herre
Background Biological sequences play a major role in molecular and computational biology. They are studied as information-bearing entities that make up DNA, RNA or proteins. The Sequence Ontology, which is part of the OBO Foundry, contains descriptions and definitions of sequences and their properties. Yet the most…