Disease causality extraction based on lexical semantics and document-clause frequency from biomedical literature

Table 1 Causality terms and lexicon-based term strength

Causality Term	\( {\upalpha}_{\mathrm{t}} \)	Causality Term	\( {\upalpha}_{\mathrm{t}} \)	Causality Term	\( {\upalpha}_{\mathrm{t}} \)
activate	1.00	effectuate	1.00	launch	0.75
activated by	0.75	effectuated by	1.00	launched by	0.75
actuate	1.00	elevate	0.75	lead	0.75
actuated by	1.00	elevated by	0.75	led by	0.75
affect	1.00	elicit	0.75	link	0.25
affected by	0.75	elicited by	0.75	made by	1.00
arisen from	0.75	enhance	0.75	make	1.00
arising from	0.75	enhanced by	0.75	originate	0.75
arouse	0.75	entail	0.50	originated by	0.75
associate with	0.25	entailed by	0.75	owe	0.75
attributable to	0.75	fire up	1.00	produce	1.00
attributed to	0.75	fired by	1.00	produced by	1.00
because of	1.00	generate	1.00	promote	0.75
began by	0.75	generated by	1.00	promoted by	0.75
begin	0.75	give birth to	1.00	provoke	0.75
bring	0.75	give rise to	1.00	provoked by	0.75
brought by	0.75	hasten	0.50	relate	0.25
call	0.75	hastened by	0.50	result	1.00
called out by	0.75	implied by	0.50	resulting from	1.00
cause	1.00	imply	0.50	rise	1.00
caused by	1.00	incite	0.75	secondary to	0.50
commence	0.50	incited by	0.75	set off	0.75
commenced by	0.50	induce	0.75	spark	1.00
complicate	0.50	induced by	0.75	sparked by	1.00
complicated by	0.50	infect	0.75	start	1.00
complication	0.50	infected by	1.00	started by	1.00
contribute	0.75	influence	0.75	stem from	1.00
contributed by	0.50	influenced by	0.75	stimulate	0.75
create	1.00	initiate	1.00	stimulated by	0.75
created by	1.00	initiated by	1.00	stir	0.75
develop	1.00	interact	0.25	stirred by	0.75
developed by	1.00	kick up	0.75	trigger	1.00
due to	1.00	kicked up by	0.75	triggered by	1.00
educe	0.75	kindle	0.75	unleash	1.00
educed by	0.75	kindled by	0.75	unleashed by	1.00

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