Intact Evidence Fragment

Basic Premise

'Evidence fragments' are the text elements of a scientific paper that specifically describes the evidence presented in figures to statements about their scientific meaning. We here describe a corpus of fragments derived from papers concerned with molecular interaction experiments (curated into Pathway Logic or INTACT). All literature-based data is derived from open access papers.

Curation Guidelines

1. Only curate paragraphs from the results sections of primary experimental papers (i.e., papers where original experimental research was performed).
2. Tag each high-level clause with one of 7 codes: none, hypothesis, problem, goal, method, result, implication (derived from http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05398).
3. For any clause, associate them with a figure or a subfigure.
   • Use codes like f1a, f1b, etc to link to subfigures
   • Use whole numbers to link to figures without subfigures or all aggregated subfigures in a given panel.
   • Do not link information intended as background (i.e, that cites other papers).
   • If a clause cites (data not shown), link it to uX (where X is a number).
   • If a clause includes more than one figure use a pipe separator: e.g, f1a|f1b

Repository organization

The subdirectories of this directory are organized as follows.

• 00_uncurated - TSV files to be processed
• 01_discourse_tags_complete - TSV files where all discourse tags are included
• 02_expt_spans_complete - TSV files where all discourse tags and figure columns are included
• 03_primary_claims_complete - TSV files where all discourse tags, figure columns, and checks for primary statements are included