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Table 4 Distribution of senses in BioDRB.

From: The biomedical discourse relation bank

Sense

Explicit

Implicit

AltLex

TOTAL

Alternative

31

3

3

37

Background

-

132

1

133

Cause

339

98

105

542

Circumstance

8

221

1

230

Concession

257

70

2

329

Condition

22

-

-

22

Conjunction

421

641

3

1065

Continuation

24

831

-

855

Contrast

205

75

2

282

Exception

7

2

-

9

Instantiation

21

53

14

88

Purpose

616

-

1

617

Reinforcement

22

60

19

101

Restatement

69

445

19

533

Similarity

5

-

-

5

Temporal

394

370

16

780

Cause/Background

8

-

-

8

Cause/Conjunction

5

-

-

5

Cause/Reinforcement

-

-

1

1

Cause/Temporal

6

-

3

9

Concession/Background

2

-

-

2

Concession/Circumstance

1

-

-

1

Condition/Circumstance

2

-

-

2

Condition/Temporal

5

-

-

5

Conjunction/Temporal

70

-

1

71

Continuation/Reinforcement

1

-

-

1

Contrast/Background

-

-

1

1

Contrast/Concession

1

-

-

1

Purpose/Conjunction

1

-

-

1

Reinforcement/Conjunction

-

-

1

1

Temporal/Circumstance

92

-

-

92

Temporal/Continuation

1

-

-

1

TOTAL

2636

3001

193

5830

  1. Multiple senses provided for connectives are shown separately.