It is in PropBank’s ARGM annotation of clausal adjuncts that sentential semantics meets discourse relation annotation in the Penn Discourse TreeBank. This paper discusses complementarities between the two annotation systems: How PropBank ARGM annotation can be used to seed annotation of additional discourse relations in the PDTB, and how PDTB annotation can be used to refine or enrich PropBank ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Safe Harbor method requires removal of 18 types of protected health information (PHI) from clinical documents to be considered "de-identified" prior to use for research purposes. Human review of PHI elements from a large corpus of clinical documents can be tedious and error-prone. Indeed, multiple annotators may be required to cons...

This paper presents an annotation framework wherein the management process of the annotation guidelines is integrated into the annotation process. Such an integration allows systematic management and reference of guidelines during annotation. For the evaluation of the proposed annotation system, we compare the conventional and proposed annotation frameworks, experiments using automatic guidelin...

Abstract Biodiversity information is contained in countless digitized and unprocessed scholarly texts. Although automated extraction of these data has been gaining momentum for years, there are still innumerable text sources that poorly accessible require a more advanced range methods to extract relevant information. To improve the access semantic biodiversity information, we have launched BIOf...