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

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 11, 2008, Pages

  Kilicoglu, Halil ^a   Bergler, Sabine ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BREAK-EVEN POINT; INFORMATION GAIN; LEXICAL RESOURCES; MACHINE-LEARNING; SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

AUTOMATION; RESEARCH;

LINGUISTICS;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DROSOPHILA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; RECALL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLICATION; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 56649091414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-S11-S10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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