Section 2.1), and (b) given the dependency graph of the sentence embedding the annotation phrase, we consider the distance between words for each dependency link within the annotation phrase and consider the maximum over such dis- 8 In preliminary experiments our set of basic features comprised additional features providing information on the usage of stop words in the annotation phrase and on the number of paragraphs, sentences, and words in the respective annotation example.
since we found these features did not have any significant impact on the model, we removed them.