. . . . . . . . "* The experimental settings include a rather simple strategy for seed selection (for both training the frame/FE classifiers and selecting the sentences to be used for extracting assertions in the first place), viz., sentence filtering according to a maximum length of words. First, for the sake of exactness and replicability of the results, this threshold should be explicitly stated. Second, I am a bit concerned that this strategy might introduce a bias towards shorter sentence with a relatively simple syntactic structure, which might explain why Named Entity Linking serves well as a surrogate of syntactic parsing. If so, this clearly questions the scalability of the approach. In any case, I would like to see a more comprehensive discussion of these aspects." . "3"^^ . . . . "2019-11-26T09:05:11+01:00"^^ . .