Combining information extraction systems using voting and stacked generalization

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sigletos, Georgios ^a   Paliouras, Georgios ^a   Spyropoulos, Constantine D ^a   Hatzopoulos, Michails ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Information extraction; Stacking; Voting

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METADATA; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; VECTORS;

CROSS VALIDATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION (IE); STACKED GENERALIZATION; STACKING FRAMEWORK;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 27544470262     PISSN: 15337928     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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