MPQA 1.2 corpus [Wiebe et al., 2005] n 535 news articles, 11,111 sentences n manually annotated w/ both DSEs and ESEs at phrase level n 135 development set n 10-fold cross validation over remaining 400 documents Evaluation Metrics Binary Overlap count every overlapping match between a predicted and true expression as correct Proportional Overlap impart a partial correctness, proportional to the overlapping amount, to each match All statistical comparisons are done using a two-sided paired t-test with a confidence level of Ћ = .05 15