Boosting Applied to Tagging and PP Attachment

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 38-45

  Abney, Steven ^a   Schapire, Robert E ^a   Singer, Yoram ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; MACHINE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ANNOTATION ERRORS; DATA QUALITY; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; PARTS-OF-SPEECH TAGGING; PERFORMANCE; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85123474333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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