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Learning Biological Processes with Global Constraints

@inproceedings{Scaria2013LearningBP,
  title={Learning Biological Processes with Global Constraints},
  author={Aju Thalappillil Scaria and Jonathan Berant and Mengqiu Wang and Peter Clark and Justin Lewis and Brittany Harding and Christopher D. Manning},
  booktitle={EMNLP},
  year={2013}
}
Biological processes are complex phenomena involving a series of events that are related to one another through various relationships. [] Key Method We represent processes by graphs whose edges describe a set of temporal, causal and co-reference event-event relations, and characterize the structural properties of these graphs (e.g., the graphs are connected).
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