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Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Biomedical Informatics

Background:

Examines argument structure alternations in domain-specific verbs and nominalizations within the PennBioIE corpus.
Defines alternation as variations in verb surface syntactic form, illustrated by active/passive voice examples.
Investigates the impact of alternations on biomedical text mining and the validity of the sublanguage model.

Purpose of the Study:

To present data on alternations in verb and nominalization argument structures in a specialized biomedical corpus.
To assess the implications of these alternations for biomedical text mining systems.
To test the suitability of the sublanguage model for biomedical texts.

Main Methods:

Analyzed 1,872 tokens of the top ten domain-specific verbs and their related nouns in the PennBioIE corpus.
Labeled tokens for the presence or absence of three specific alternations.
Annotated arguments for 746 nominalization tokens, counting alternations related to argument presence/absence and syntactic position.

Main Results:

Alternations are frequently observed in both verbs and their associated nominalizations.
A novel alternation involving an adjectival present participle was identified.
Nominalization alternations demonstrate exceptional diversity within the studied domain.

Conclusions:

Despite semantic restrictions, alternations are prevalent in biomedical language.
The sublanguage model remains applicable to biomedical texts.
A previously undocumented alternation involving adjectival present participles is reported.