Corpus-based approaches to processing the scope of negation cues: an evaluation of the state of the art

In this paper we summarize existing work on the recently introduced task of processing the scope of negation and modality cues; we analyse the scope model that existing systems can process, which is mainly the model reflected in the annotations of the biomedical corpus on which the systems have been trained; and we point out aspects of the scope finding task that would be different based on observations from a corpus from a different domain and nature.

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