Hedge detection and scope finding by sequence labeling with normalized feature selection

CoNLL-2010: Shared Task - Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Shared Task

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 92-99

  Zhang, Shaodian ^a   Zhao, Hai ^a,b   Zhou, Guodong ^b   Lu, Bao Liang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

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FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; LABELING STRATEGY; SEQUENCE LABELING; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

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