2022
MiST: a Large-Scale Annotated Resource and Neural Models for Functions of Modal Verbs in English Scientific Text
EMNLP 2022finding
Modal verbs (e.g., can, should or must) occur highly frequently in scientific articles. Decoding their function is not straightforward: they are often used for hedging, but they may also denote abilities and restrictions. Understanding their meaning is important for accurate information extraction f…