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Table 4 Manually annotated negation triggers

From: Negation detection in Swedish clinical text: An adaption of NegEx to Swedish

Phrase

 

Annot. 1

Annot. 2

Annot. 3

inte

(not)

307

368

277

ingen

(no, common gender)

227

255

218

ej

(not)

176

186

177

inga

(no, plural)

164

177

159

inget

(no, neuter gender)

51

55

47

utan

(without)

34

63

39

icke

(non-, not)

8

4

6

ingenting

(nothing)

4

3

3

intet

(nothing)

2

1

1

aldrig

(never)

0

0

2

  1. All negation triggers that occurred more than once in the manually annotated clinical text described by Dalianis and Velupillai. In their study, 6 740 sentences were manually annotated for negation and uncertainty by three different annotators. [27]
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