{ "paper_id": "W11-0141", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T05:43:50.201240Z" }, "title": "Corpus-based approaches to processing the scope of negation cues: an evaluation of the state of the art", "authors": [ { "first": "Roser", "middle": [], "last": "Morante", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "CLiPS-CL University of Antwerp", "location": {} }, "email": "roser.morante@ua.ac.be" }, { "first": "Sarah", "middle": [], "last": "Schrauwen", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "CLiPS-CL University of Antwerp", "location": {} }, "email": "sarah.schrauwen@student.ua.ac.be" }, { "first": "Walter", "middle": [], "last": "Daelemans", "suffix": "", "affiliation": { "laboratory": "", "institution": "CLiPS-CL University of Antwerp", "location": {} }, "email": "walter.daelemans@ua.ac.be" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "In this paper we summarize existing work on the recently introduced task of processing the scope of negation and modality cues; we analyse the scope model that existing systems can process, which is mainly the model reflected in the annotations of the biomedical corpus on which the systems have been trained; and we point out aspects of the scope finding task that would be different based on observations from a corpus from a different domain and nature.", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "W11-0141", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [ { "text": "In this paper we summarize existing work on the recently introduced task of processing the scope of negation and modality cues; we analyse the scope model that existing systems can process, which is mainly the model reflected in the annotations of the biomedical corpus on which the systems have been trained; and we point out aspects of the scope finding task that would be different based on observations from a corpus from a different domain and nature.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Abstract", "sec_num": null } ], "body_text": [ { "text": "Negation and modality are complex aspects of the semantics of language. Modality was introduced by Jespersen (1924) , who distinguishes between two categories of mood that later have been named as deontic modality and epistemic modality. Lyons (1996) describes epistemic modality as concerned with matters of knowledge and belief, \"the speaker's opinion or attitude towards the proposition that the sentence expresses or the situation that the proposition describes\". Palmer (1986) defines it as expressing the speaker's degree of commitment to the truth of a proposition. Polarity is a discrete category that can take two values: positive and negative. Positive polarity is used by speakers to put information as a fact in the world, whereas negative polarity is used to put information as a counterfact, a fact that does not hold in the world. Negation is a linguistic resource used to express negative polarity.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 99, "end": 115, "text": "Jespersen (1924)", "ref_id": "BIBREF10" }, { "start": 238, "end": 250, "text": "Lyons (1996)", "ref_id": "BIBREF12" }, { "start": 468, "end": 481, "text": "Palmer (1986)", "ref_id": "BIBREF18" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "Although the treatment of these topics in computational linguistics is relatively new compared to other areas like machine translation, parsing or semantic role labeling, incorporating information about modality and polarity has been shown to be useful for a number of applications, such as biomedical text processing (Di Marco and Mercer, 2005; Chapman et al., 2001) , opinion mining and sentiment analysis (Wilson et al., 2005) , recognizing textual entailment (Snow et al., 2006) , and automatic style checking (Ganter and Strube, 2009) . In general, the treatment of modality and negation is very relevant for computational applications that process factuality (Saur\u00ed, 2008) . For example, information extraction systems may be confronted with fragments of texts like the one presented in (1) 1 , which contains two negation cues 2 (not, un-) and one speculation cue (likely) that affect the factuality of the events being expressed:", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 322, "end": 345, "text": "Marco and Mercer, 2005;", "ref_id": "BIBREF6" }, { "start": 346, "end": 367, "text": "Chapman et al., 2001)", "ref_id": "BIBREF4" }, { "start": 408, "end": 429, "text": "(Wilson et al., 2005)", "ref_id": "BIBREF27" }, { "start": 463, "end": 482, "text": "(Snow et al., 2006)", "ref_id": "BIBREF23" }, { "start": 514, "end": 539, "text": "(Ganter and Strube, 2009)", "ref_id": "BIBREF8" }, { "start": 665, "end": 678, "text": "(Saur\u00ed, 2008)", "ref_id": "BIBREF21" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "(1)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "The atovaquone/proguanil combination has not been widely used yet in West Africa so it is unlikely that the patient was initially infected with an atovaquone-resistant strain.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "So far two main tasks have been addressed within the natural language processing (NLP) community: (i) the detection of various forms of polarity and modality and (ii) the identification of the scope of negation and modality cues. In this paper we reflect on the achievements of the recently introduced scope finding task (Section 2), we analyse the scope model that existing systems can process (Section 3), and we point out aspects of the scope finding task that would be different based on observations from a corpus from a different domain (Section 4).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": "1" }, { "text": "In the last years, several corpora have been annotated with information related to modality and polarity, which have made it possible to develop machine learning systems. Annotation has been performed at different levels: word (Hassan and Radev, 2010) , expression (Baker et al., 2010; Toprak et al., 2010) , sentence (Medlock and Briscoe, 2007) , event (Saur\u00ed and Pustejovsky, 2009) , discourse relation (Prasad et al., 2006 ), text (Amancio et al., 2010) , and scope of negation and modality cues (Vincze et al., 2008) . Thanks to the existence of the BioScope corpus, the scope processing task was recently introduced. Bio-Scope is a freely available resource, that consists of three parts of medical and biological texts annotated with negation and hedge cues and their scope.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 227, "end": 251, "text": "(Hassan and Radev, 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF9" }, { "start": 265, "end": 285, "text": "(Baker et al., 2010;", "ref_id": "BIBREF2" }, { "start": 286, "end": 306, "text": "Toprak et al., 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF24" }, { "start": 318, "end": 345, "text": "(Medlock and Briscoe, 2007)", "ref_id": "BIBREF13" }, { "start": 354, "end": 383, "text": "(Saur\u00ed and Pustejovsky, 2009)", "ref_id": "BIBREF22" }, { "start": 405, "end": 425, "text": "(Prasad et al., 2006", "ref_id": "BIBREF19" }, { "start": 434, "end": 456, "text": "(Amancio et al., 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF1" }, { "start": 499, "end": 520, "text": "(Vincze et al., 2008)", "ref_id": "BIBREF26" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Achievements in scope processing", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "The scope processing task is concerned with determining at a sentence level which tokens are affected by modality and negation cues. It was first modelled as a classification problem by Morante et al. (2008) . Later on several systems have been trained on the same corpus (Morante and Daelemans, 2009; \u00d6zg\u00fcr and Radev, 2009; Agarwal and Yu, 2010; Li et al., 2010) . Councill et al. (2010) process scopes of negation cues in a different corpus of product reviews, but this corpus is not publicly available.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 186, "end": 207, "text": "Morante et al. (2008)", "ref_id": "BIBREF15" }, { "start": 272, "end": 301, "text": "(Morante and Daelemans, 2009;", "ref_id": "BIBREF14" }, { "start": 302, "end": 324, "text": "\u00d6zg\u00fcr and Radev, 2009;", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 325, "end": 346, "text": "Agarwal and Yu, 2010;", "ref_id": "BIBREF0" }, { "start": 347, "end": 363, "text": "Li et al., 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF11" }, { "start": 366, "end": 388, "text": "Councill et al. (2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF5" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Achievements in scope processing", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "The CoNLL Shared Task 2010 on Learning to detect hedges and their scope in natural language text (Farkas et al., 2010) boosted research on the topic. It consisted of identifying sentences containing uncertainty and recognizing speculative text spans inside sentences. Participating systems would, for example, produce the tagged sentence in (2) 3 , in which propose, suggest and possible are identified as hedge cues and their scope is marked in agreement with the gold standard.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 97, "end": 118, "text": "(Farkas et al., 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF7" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Achievements in scope processing", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "( 2)We [propose propose that the existence of the alternative alignments, specific to distinct groups of genes, [suggest suggests presence of different synchronization modes between the two organisms and [ possible possible functional decoupling of particular physiological gene networks in the course of evolution possible ]suggest]propose] .", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Achievements in scope processing", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "The best system (Morante et al., 2010) for hedge scope finding in the CoNLL ST 2010 scores 57.32 F-score. Although the results are lower than the scores obtained in other well established tasks (i.e. semantic role labeling, dependency parsing), we can say that setting the first step towards automatic scope processing is an achievement. However, it can be useful to revise the characteristics of the scopes that the systems learn to process, not from a technical machine learning perspective, but from the linguistic annotation perspective, since the annotation model that systems learn determines the quality of the system output and the knowledge that can be inferred from the scopes.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 16, "end": 38, "text": "(Morante et al., 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF16" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Achievements in scope processing", "sec_num": "2" }, { "text": "Most existing scope labelers have been trained on the BioScope corpus. Thus, the model of scope that these systems learn is determined by the characteristics of scope as they have been annotated in BioScope. Additionally, the systems have been trained for a specific domain, biomedical texts, but it might be the case that negation and speculation cues require different annotation specifications for texts from other domains. In this section we analyze the characteristics of the scope model in the BioScope corpus based on the guidelines (BioScope, 2008) and we propose some changes for further annotation work that we are carrying out. We mark in italics the statements from the BioScope guidelines and we comment on them.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "\u2212 The scope is always a continuous sequence of tokens and the cue is included in the scope. Although most scopes in the corpus are continuous, examples such as (3), in which sentence adverbs do not belong to the scope, suggest that the scopes should be annotated as discontinuous if necessary:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "(3)", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "[not \u2212 The scope of negative auxiliaries, adjectives and adverbs usually starts with the cue and ends at the end of the phrase, clause or sentence. In (4) the scope extends to the right of not. In our view, the scope should include the subject because the subject contributes to the meaning of the event being negated. If, as Lyons (1996) suggest, we paraphrase the negative connective in (4) with the formula it is not the case that, we obtain (5), where the subject is under the scope of the formula.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 326, "end": 338, "text": "Lyons (1996)", "ref_id": "BIBREF12" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "(4) Once again, the Disorder module does [not not contribute positively to the prediction not]", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "(5) Once again, it is not the case that the Disorder module does contribute positively to the prediction \u2212 Passive voice changes the scope of the cue because the object of the active construction is the subject of the passive construction. According to the BioScope guidelines, the scope of not in 6 and 7 would be annotated differently. As indicated above, we consider that the subject of the active sentence is also under the scope of the negation, so in our view both sentences should be analyzed equally. ", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "In contrast, it is not the case that sodium salicylate (1 mM) inhibits either adhesion or expression of these adhesion molecules \u2212 Prepositions scope over the following (noun) phrase. (10) is the example provided in the guidelines, where without scopes over a noun phrase. Nevertheless, without can be followed by a verb phrase, as in (11). In this case, one could argue that the logical subject of the verb should be included in the scope of the preposition, since the negation can be paraphrased as in (12). Possible improvements in the BioScope annotation model are pointed out in Vincze (2010) , namely the treatment of elliptic constructions, and discontinuous and intersecting scopes. An additional improvement would be to annotate affixal negation. We consider that (13) is equivalent to (14) and should receive the same analysis, since they can be paraphrased as in 15 ", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 584, "end": 597, "text": "Vincze (2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF25" } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Scope model based on the BioScope corpus", "sec_num": "3" }, { "text": "The existing scope labelers have been trained on biomedical texts. However, it is reasonable to expect that texts from other domains contain different phenomena that would affect the systems performance. We are currently analysing negations and their scopes in a complete different corpus, The Hound of the Baskervilles (HB) by Conan Doyle. This corpus has been annotated with coreference and semantic roles for the SemEval Task Linking Events and Their Participants in Discourse (Ruppenhofer et al., 2010) , and will be further annotated with negation and modality cues. Phenomena in this corpus show that whereas the scope of cues can be determined in a similar way as it is determined in biomedical texts, identifying negation cues in certain contexts, which is the first part of the scope finding task, is not only a matter of lexical lookup: \u2212 Not all negative affixes are negation cues. For example the affix un-in unspoken does not negate its root morpheme. Unspoken does not mean 'not spoken', but 'understood without the need for words '. Consequently, in (16) unspoken is not a negation cue. 16 \u2212 Negation words in exclamative particles do not have a negation function. In (20), don't tell me does not express a negated event. This is a multiword construction used to express surprise.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 480, "end": 506, "text": "(Ruppenhofer et al., 2010)", "ref_id": "BIBREF20" }, { "start": 1045, "end": 1061, "text": "'. Consequently,", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 1062, "end": 1069, "text": "in (16)", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Annotating scopes in a different domain", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "(20) \"Don't tell me that it is our friend Sir Henry!\" \u2212 Some modality cues, such as no doubt, contain false negation cues. In (21) no doubt is a fixed expression that expresses certainty, no event is negated. It is an expression that acts at the discourse level conveying information about the attitude of the speaker towards his statement. In this paper we have briefly presented the achievements in processing the scope of negation and modality cues. There are currently several systems that can process scopes in biomedical texts, however there is a lack of annotated resources, since there is only one publicly available corpus. We have also pointed out that the quality of the systems output depends not only on the technical aspects of the systems, but also on the linguistic model contained in the annotations. Based on annotation work on a literary corpus, we have pointed out some difficulties that existing systems could face in detecting cues. We are currently annotating texts by Conan Doyle with negation cues and their scopes. For defining the guidelines we take the model of the BioScope corpus as a starting point and we include modifications based on the observations made above. The annotated corpus and the guidelines will be publicly available.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Annotating scopes in a different domain", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "Apart from annotating more data, further work will focus on computing the factuality of statements based on the scopes of negation and modality cues and other contextual features, and studying the interaction between negation and modality.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Annotating scopes in a different domain", "sec_num": "4" }, { "text": "Example to be found in http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-1-1.pdf [last consulted 8-10-2010] 2 A cue is the lexical marker that expresses negation or modality.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "In the examples below, cues will be marked in bold and their scope between brackets.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [ { "text": "This study was made possible through financial support from the University of Antwerp (GOA project BIOGRAPH). 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