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Table 3 A vocabulary of disease causality semantic predicates

From: A study on large-scale disease causality discovery from biomedical literature

Semantic Predicates

Caused

resulting

precipitate

triggering

as the result

Play important causative roles

result

lead

triggered

play an etiological role

As a results

results

causes

leading

etiology

As the end result

producing

causing

triggers

etiologies

As the results

risk factor

resulted

trigger

aetiology

Due to

produce

induces

led

produced

Secondary

induce

leads

responsible

causative

Cause

attributable

as a result

risk factors

pathogenesis

Precipitated

owing to

produces

as result

risk

Induced

due

inducing

play causative roles

as a direct result

  1. The accuracy rate is ranked from high to low