David Milward


2014

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Precise Medication Extraction using Agile Text Mining
Chaitanya Shivade | James Cormack | David Milward
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi)

2012

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CALBC: Releasing the Final Corpora
Şenay Kafkas | Ian Lewin | David Milward | Erik van Mulligen | Jan Kors | Udo Hahn | Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

A number of gold standard corpora for named entity recognition are available to the public. However, the existing gold standard corpora are limited in size and semantic entity types. These usually lead to implementation of trained solutions (1) for a limited number of semantic entity types and (2) lacking in generalization capability. In order to overcome these problems, the CALBC project has aimed to automatically generate large scale corpora annotated with multiple semantic entity types in a community-wide manner based on the consensus of different named entity solutions. The generated corpus is called the silver standard corpus since the corpus generation process does not involve any manual curation. In this publication, we announce the release of the final CALBC corpora which include the silver standard corpus in different versions and several gold standard corpora for the further usage of the biomedical text mining community. The gold standard corpora are utilised to benchmark the methods used in the silver standard corpora generation process and released in a shared format. All the corpora are released in a shared format and accessible at www.calbc.eu.

2010

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The CALBC Silver Standard Corpus for Biomedical Named Entities — A Study in Harmonizing the Contributions from Four Independent Named Entity Taggers
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann | Antonio José Jimeno Yepes | Erik M. van Mulligen | Ning Kang | Jan Kors | David Milward | Peter Corbett | Ekaterina Buyko | Katrin Tomanek | Elena Beisswanger | Udo Hahn
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

The production of gold standard corpora is time-consuming and costly. We propose an alternative: the ‚silver standard corpus‘ (SSC), a corpus that has been generated by the harmonisation of the annotations that have been delivered from a selection of annotation systems. The systems have to share the type system for the annotations and the harmonisation solution has use a suitable similarity measure for the pair-wise comparison of the annotations. The annotation systems have been evaluated against the harmonised set (630.324 sentences, 15,956,841 tokens). We can demonstrate that the annotation of proteins and genes shows higher diversity across all used annotation solutions leading to a lower agreement against the harmonised set in comparison to the annotations of diseases and species. An analysis of the most frequent annotations from all systems shows that a high agreement amongst systems leads to the selection of terms that are suitable to be kept in the harmonised set. This is the first large-scale approach to generate an annotated corpus from automated annotation systems. Further research is required to understand, how the annotations from different systems have to be combined to produce the best annotation result for a harmonised corpus.

2000

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From Information Retrieval to Information Extraction
David Milward | James Thomas
ACL-2000 Workshop on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

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Distributing Representation for Robust Interpretation of Dialogue Utterances
David Milward
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1996

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An Education and Research Tool for Computational Semantics
Karsten Konrad | Holger Maier | David Milward | Manfred Pinkal
COLING 1996 Volume 2: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1995

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Incremental Interpretation of Categorial Grammar
David Milward
Seventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1994

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Incremental Interpretation: Applications, Theory, and Relationship to Dynamic Semantics
David Milward | Robin Cooper
COLING 1994 Volume 2: The 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Non-Constituent Coordination: Theory and Practice
David Milward
COLING 1994 Volume 2: The 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1992

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Dynamics, Dependency Grammar and Incremental Interpretation
David Milward
COLING 1992 Volume 4: The 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1990

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Coordination in an Axiomatic Grammar
David Milward
COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics