Learning with Structured Representations for Negation Scope Extraction

Hao Li, Wei Lu


Abstract
We report an empirical study on the task of negation scope extraction given the negation cue. Our key observation is that certain useful information such as features related to negation cue, long-distance dependencies as well as some latent structural information can be exploited for such a task. We design approaches based on conditional random fields (CRF), semi-Markov CRF, as well as latent-variable CRF models to capture such information. Extensive experiments on several standard datasets demonstrate that our approaches are able to achieve better results than existing approaches reported in the literature.
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P18-2085
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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533–539
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https://aclanthology.org/P18-2085
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2085
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Hao Li and Wei Lu. 2018. Learning with Structured Representations for Negation Scope Extraction. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 533–539, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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