| Epistemic_Statements | | The goal of this work is to identify epistemic statements in the scientific literature. An epistemic statement is a statement of unknowns, hypotheses, speculations, uncertainties, including statements of claims, hypotheses, questions, explanations, future opportunities, surprises, issues, or concerns within a sentence. The unit of an epistemic statement is a sentence automatically parsed. The classification is binary - epistemic statement or not. We will label epistemic statements only and one can assume that if a statement is not labeled, then it is not an epistemic statement.
The classifier is a CRF, trained on gold standard annotations of epistemic statements that are currently ongoing. We report an F-measure of 0.91 after 5-fold cross validation on a test set with 914 statements and an F-measure of 0.9 on a held out document with 130 statements. This project is still under development and is submitted to be used for the CovidLit project and associated Hackathon.
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