Table 10 Hedging and commitment.
From: Challenges for automatically extracting molecular interactions from full-text articles
Term list | TP | FN | FP |
|---|---|---|---|
Epistemic adjectives | 2.4 | 2.5 | 4.6 |
Epistemic nouns | 2.3 | 2.2 | 4.0 |
Epistemic adverbials | 2.5 | 2.5 | 4.1 |
Indefinite quantifiers | 3.6 | 6.8 | 5.3 |
Modal verbs | 8.3 | 9.5 | 15.0 |
Epistemic lexical verbs | 12.7 | 16.3 | 18.2 |
Speculative terms [37] | 13.0 | 14.2 | 16.1 |
Any hedging terms | 25.0 | 32.0 | 37.5 |
Any commitment terms | 40.3 | 48.3 | 36.7 |
Only hedging terms | 15.3 | 15.4 | 25.0 |
Only commitment terms | 30.7 | 31.7 | 24.0 |