Updating an NLP System to Fit New Domains: an empirical study on the sentence segmentation problem

Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2003 at HLT-NAACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 56-62

  Zhang, Tong ^a   Damerau, Fred ^a   Johnson, David ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING; STATISTICS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE; PROCESSING PROBLEMS; SENTENCE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM; STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING; STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL SYSTEMS; TRAINING DATA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84891407142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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