Finding hedges by chasing weasels: hedge detection using Wikipedia tags and shallow linguistic features

  • Authors:
  • Viola Ganter;Michael Strube

  • Affiliations:
  • EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany;EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We investigate the automatic detection of sentences containing linguistic hedges using corpus statistics and syntactic patterns. We take Wikipedia as an already annotated corpus using its tagged weasel words which mark sentences and phrases as non-factual. We evaluate the quality of Wikipedia as training data for hedge detection, as well as shallow linguistic features.