Interactive Extractive Search over Biomedical Corpora

@article{TaubTabib2020InteractiveES,
  title={Interactive Extractive Search over Biomedical Corpora},
  author={Hillel Taub-Tabib and Micah Shlain and Shoval Sadde and Dan Lahav and Matan Eyal and Yaara Cohen and Yoav Goldberg},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2006.04148}
}
We present a system that allows life-science researchers to search a linguistically annotated corpus of scientific texts using patterns over dependency graphs, as well as using patterns over token sequences and a powerful variant of boolean keyword queries. In contrast to previous attempts to dependency-based search, we introduce a light-weight query language that does not require the user to know the details of the underlying linguistic representations, and instead to query the corpus by… 
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