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The idea is that, if the role of each sentence can be marked up, then these metadata can be used during information retrieval to seek particular types of information such as novelty, conclusions, methodologies, aims\/goals of a scientific piece of work.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>Two approaches were tested: linguistic cues and positional heuristics. Linguistic cues are lexico\u2010syntactic patterns modelled as regular expressions implemented in a linguistic parser. 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Also, to compare the results of the study with earlier studies using Medline abstracts, the different argumentative roles present in Medline had to be mapped on to four major argumentative roles. 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