A critical review of PASBio's argument structures for biomedical verbs

@article{citeulike:2855931, abstract = {BACKGROUND:Propositional representations of biomedical knowledge are a critical component of most aspects of semantic mining in biomedicine. However, the proper set of propositions has yet to be determined. Recently, the PASBio project proposed a set of propositions and argument structures for biomedical verbs. This initial set of representations presents an opportunity for evaluating the suitability of predicate-argument structures as a scheme for representing verbal semantics in the biomedical domain. Here, we quantitatively evaluate several dimensions of the initial PASBio propositional structure repository.RESULTS:We propose a number of metrics and heuristics related to arity, role labelling, argument realization, and corpus coverage for evaluating large-scale predicate-argument structure proposals. We evaluate the metrics and heuristics by applying them to PASBio 1.0.CONCLUSION:PASBio demonstrates the suitability of predicate-argument structures for representing aspects of the semantics of biomedical verbs. Metrics related to theta-criterion violations and to the distribution of arguments are able to detect flaws in semantic representations, given a set of predicate-argument structures and a relatively small corpus annotated with them.}, author = {Cohen, Bretonnel K. and Hunter, Lawrence }, citeulike-article-id = {2855931}, doi = {10.1186/1471-2105-7-S3-S5}, journal = {BMC Bioinformatics}, keywords = {nlp, review}, number = {Suppl 3}, posted-at = {2008-06-26 03:44:34}, priority = {2}, title = {A critical review of PASBio's argument structures for biomedical verbs}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-S3-S5}, volume = {7}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2855931 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2855931 TI - A critical review of PASBio's argument structures for biomedical verbs JF - BMC Bioinformatics VL - 7 IS - Suppl 3 N2 - BACKGROUND:Propositional representations of biomedical knowledge are a critical component of most aspects of semantic mining in biomedicine. However, the proper set of propositions has yet to be determined. Recently, the PASBio project proposed a set of propositions and argument structures for biomedical verbs. This initial set of representations presents an opportunity for evaluating the suitability of predicate-argument structures as a scheme for representing verbal semantics in the biomedical domain. Here, we quantitatively evaluate several dimensions of the initial PASBio propositional structure repository.RESULTS:We propose a number of metrics and heuristics related to arity, role labelling, argument realization, and corpus coverage for evaluating large-scale predicate-argument structure proposals. We evaluate the metrics and heuristics by applying them to PASBio 1.0.CONCLUSION:PASBio demonstrates the suitability of predicate-argument structures for representing aspects of the semantics of biomedical verbs. Metrics related to theta-criterion violations and to the distribution of arguments are able to detect flaws in semantic representations, given a set of predicate-argument structures and a relatively small corpus annotated with them. KW - nlp KW - review AU - Cohen, Bretonnel AU - Hunter, Lawrence PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-S3-S5 ER -