Improving a simple bigram HMM part-of-speech tagger by latent annotation and self-training

NAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-216

  Huang, Zhongqiang ^a   Eidelman, Vladimir ^a   Harper, Mary ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BEST MODEL; BIGRAMS; LABELED TRAINING DATA; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; PERFORMANCE; SELF-TRAINING; SIMPLE++; TRI GRAMS; UNLABELED DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878185433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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