A statistical decision making method: A case study on prepositional phrase attachment

CoNLL 1997 - Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the 1997 Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 33-42

  Kayaalp, Mehmet ^a   Pedersen, Ted ^a   Bruce, Rebecca ^a  

^a Southern Methodist University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BEST MODEL; CASE-STUDIES; DECISION-MAKING METHOD; MODEL SWITCHING; PRECISION AND RECALL; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION METHODS; STATISTICAL DECISION-MAKING; SWITCHING METHODS;

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