evidence-based medicine is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. evidence-based medicine developed concurrently with the internet and the world wide web. this is no coincidence since evidence-based medicine suggests a personal responsibility for clinicians to keep abreast of research that would be difficult without the information access that the ...

Evidence-based medicine is now generally perceived to be the dominant operating system in conventional medicine. Evidence-based medicine developed concurrently with the internet and the world wide web. This is no coincidence since evidence-based medicine suggests a personal responsibility for clinicians to keep abreast of research that would be difficult without the information access that the ...

Multi-word expressions (MWEs) are difficult to define and also difficult to annotate. Some of them cause serious errors in the traditional annotation pipeline tokenization – morphological analysis – morphological disambiguation. Many cases of incorrect annotation in Czech corpora are known. To narrow the research topic, we focus only in fixed MWEs – those with fixed word order and no ellidable ...

Identifying whether a multi-word expression (MWE) is compositional or not is important for numerous NLP applications. Sense induction can partition the context of MWEs into semantic uses and therefore aid in deciding compositionality. We propose an unsupervised system to explore this hypothesis on compound nominals, proper names and adjective-noun constructions, and evaluate the contribution of...

Open Information Extraction (OIE) aims to identify all the possible assertions within a sentence. Recent and thus the most efficient OIE-tools use the grammatical dependencies or the syntactic tree of the sentence to perform extraction. When they provide a wrong extraction it is mainly due to parsing errors. In this paper, we propose to handle these parsing errors before doing OIE itself. To ac...

This paper describes results of a study related to the PARSEME Shared Task on automatic detection of verbal Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs) which focuses on their identification in running texts in many languages. The Shared Task’s organizers have provided basic annotation guidelines where four basic types of verbal MWEs are defined including some specific subtypes. Czech is among the twenty lang...