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Modeling Alzheimer's disease research claims, evidence, and arguments from a biology research paper [ISSA 2018 presentation]

Schneider, Jodi; Sandhu, Novejot

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Title
Modeling Alzheimer's disease research claims, evidence, and arguments from a biology research paper [ISSA 2018 presentation]
Author(s)
  • Schneider, Jodi
  • Sandhu, Novejot
Issue Date
2018-07-05
Keyword(s)
  • argument visualization
  • argumentation
  • Alzheimer's disease research
  • Micropublications
  • experimental biology research papers
  • hand-annotation
  • evidence
  • claims
  • arguments
Abstract
Argument visualization may help make research papers easier to understand, which could both speed quality assessment within a discipline and help build interdisciplinary knowledge networks. This paper presents a case study of the arguments in a single high-profile paper on Alzheimer's disease research. Within this one paper, we analyze and hand-annotate the main claim, which is supported by 4 subclaims, in turn supported by data, methods, and materials. We also investigate how the paper imports and uses knowledge claims from other research papers. We create a specialized argument-based knowledge representation called a micropublication. In future work, we will investigate automatic argumentation mining for experimental biology research papers. Our long-term vision is to create literature-scale claim-argument networks that help more quickly use new knowledge about human health.
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other
Language
en
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