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Prior work on the rhetoric and sociology of science suggests that hedging may distinguish popular-science text from text written by professional scientists for their colleagues. We propose a detailed approach to studying whether hedge detection can be used to understanding scientific framing in the GMO debates, and provide corpora to facilitate this study. Some of our preliminary analyses suggest that hedges occur less frequently in scientific discourse than in popular text, a finding that contradicts prior assertions in the literature. We hope that our initial work and data will encourage others to pursue this promising line of inquiry.
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@InProceedings{Choi+al:2012,
author = {Eunsol Choi and Chenhao Tan and Lillian Lee and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Jennifer Spindel},
title = {Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the {GMO} debates: A position paper},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics},
year = {2012} }
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