| Challenge: | Negation is a universal but complicated linguistic phenomenon that reverses the polarity of a statement or its property into opposite. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework which consists of a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory neural network and a Conditional Random Fields layer to capture contextual information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the SEM’12 shared task corpus, yielding an absolute improvement of 2.11% over the state-of-the-art. |
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