A survey on clinical natural language processing in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2022

H Wu, M Wang, J Wu, F Francis, YH Chang… - NPJ digital …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Much of the knowledge and information needed for enabling high-quality clinical research is
stored in free-text format. Natural language processing (NLP) has been used to extract …

Identification of research hypotheses and new knowledge from scientific literature

M Shardlow, R Batista-Navarro, P Thompson… - BMC medical informatics …, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Text mining (TM) methods have been used extensively to extract relations and
events from the literature. In addition, TM techniques have been used to extract various …

A scalable and adaptive method for finding semantically equivalent cue words of uncertainty

C Chen, M Song, GE Heo - Journal of Informetrics, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Scientific knowledge is constantly subject to a variety of changes due to new discoveries,
alternative interpretations, and fresh perspectives. Understanding uncertainties associated …

MedTAG: a portable and customizable annotation tool for biomedical documents

F Giachelle, O Irrera, G Silvello - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision …, 2021‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Semantic annotators and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
methods for Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NER+ L) require plenty of training and …

Natural language processing and computational linguistics

J Tsujii - Computational Linguistics, 2021‏ - direct.mit.edu
As an engineering field, research on natural language processing (NLP) is much more
constrained by currently available resources and technologies, compared with theoretical …

Testing the reproducibility and robustness of the cancer biology literature by robot

K Roper, A Abdel-Rehim… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientific results should not just be 'repeatable'(replicable in the same laboratory under
identical conditions), but also 'reproducible'(replicable in other laboratories under similar …

The possible, the plausible, and the desirable: Event-based modality detection for language processing

V Pyatkin, S Sadde, A Rubinstein, P Portner… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
Modality is the linguistic ability to describe events with added information such as how
desirable, plausible, or feasible they are. Modality is important for many NLP downstream …

[HTML][HTML] Creating an ignorance-base: Exploring known unknowns in the scientific literature

MR Boguslav, NM Salem, EK White, KJ Sullivan… - Journal of biomedical …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Background: Scientific discovery progresses by exploring new and uncharted territory. More
specifically, it advances by a process of transforming unknown unknowns first into known …

Definitely maybe: Hedges and boosters in the HCI literature

L Besançon, Y Jansen, A Cockburn, P Dragicevic - 2021‏ - inria.hal.science
Introduction: Hedges and boosters are terms respectively used to decrease and increase the
strength of statements. They are therefore essential lexical tools in scientific communication …

FLUTE: Fast and reliable knowledge retrieval from biomedical literature

E Holtzapple, CA Telmer, N Miskov-Zivanov - Database, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
State-of-the-art machine reading methods extract, in hours, hundreds of thousands of events
from the biomedical literature. However, many of the extracted biomolecular interactions are …