Detecting negation and uncertainty is crucial for medical text mining applications; otherwise,
extracted information can be incorrectly identified as real or factual events. Although several …

Code review is a software quality assurance practice widely employed in both open source
and commercial software projects to detect defects, transfer knowledge and encourage …

Context Code review is a widely used technique of systematic examination of code changes
which aims at increasing software quality. Code reviews provide several benefits for the …

Many scientific applications need support from a communication infrastructure that provides
predictable performance, which requires effective algorithms for bandwidth reservations …

Code reviews are an important mechanism for assuring quality of source code changes.
Reviewers can either add general comments pertaining to the entire change or pinpoint …

Background: Scientific discovery progresses by exploring new and uncharted territory. More
specifically, it advances by a process of transforming unknown unknowns first into known …

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 …

Negation and speculation are complex expressive linguistic phenomena that have been
extensively studied from a theoretical perspective (Morante & Sporleder, 2012). They modify …

The inability to correctly resolve rumours circulating online can have harmful real-world
consequences. We present a method for incorporating model and data uncertainty estimates …

Reasoning is key to many decision making processes. It requires consolidating a set of rule-
like premises that are often associated with degrees of uncertainty and observations to draw …