... adaptation of the rule set to newdomains and corpora.1 MotivationInformation Extraction (IE) systems often facethe problem of distinguishing between affirmed,negated, and speculative information in ... of phrases splitinto subsets (preceding vs. following their scope) toidentify cues using string matching. The cue scopesextend from the cue to the beginning or end of thesentence, depending ... sentence in the training dataset which contained a negation or speculationcue using the Stanford parser (Klein and Manning,2003; De Marneffe et al., 2006). Figure 1 shows theparse tree of a sample...