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Support relations as graphs backing claims
Our model provides a framework to support exten- sively qualified claims in natural language, as generally presented by researchers in their primary publications. Most fundamentally, it adds support relations to claims in the literature, to assist in resolving primary scientific evidence within a “lineage” of assertions. Support rela- tions, structured as graphs, back up assertions with the data, context and methodological evidence which vali- dates them.