Improving POS Tagging Using Machine-Learning Techniques

Proceedings of the 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, EMNLP 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 53-62

  Màrquez, Lluís ^a   Rodríguez, Horacio ^b   Carmona, Josep ^a   Montolio, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corpus based modeling; Decision trees; Ensembles of classifiers; POS tagging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BASED MODELLING; CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED MODELING; DATA SPARSENESS; ENSEMBLE OF CLASSIFIERS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; POS TAGGING; STATE OF THE ART;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 78649308253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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