A critical review of PASBio's argument structures for biomedical verbs

Background: Propositional representations of biomedical knowledge are a critical component of most aspects of semantic mining in biomedicine. However, the proper set of propositions has yet to be determined. Recently, the PASBio project proposed a set of propositions and argument structures for biomedical verbs. This initial set of representations presents an opportunity for evaluating the suitability of predicate-argument structures as a scheme for representing verbal semantics in the biomedical domain. Here, we quantitatively evaluate several dimensions of the initial PASBio propositional structure repository. Results: We propose a number of metrics and heuristics related to arity, role labelling, argument realization, and corpus coverage for evaluating large-scale predicate-argument structure proposals.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: K. Bretonnel Cohen, Lawrence Hunter
• Keywords: Biomedical, BMCBI 2006, Predicate-argument Structure, Propositional Representations