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Boosting Applied to Tagging and PP Attachment

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (1999)

DOI: nan

Boosting is a machine learning algorithm that is not well known in computational linguistics. We ap- ply it to part-of-speech tagging and prepositional phrase attachment. Performance is very encourag- ing. …...

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A Stacked, Voted, Stacked Model for Named Entity Recognition

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2003)

DOI: nan

This paper investigates stacking and voting methods for combining strong classifiers like boosting, SVM, and TBL, on the named-entity recognition task. We demonstrate several ef- fective approaches, culminating in a …...

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A Boosting Algorithm for Classification of Semi-Structured Text

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2004)

DOI: nan

The focus of research in text classification has ex- panded from simple topic identification to more challenging tasks such as opinion/modality identi- fication. Unfortunately, the latter goals exceed the ability …...

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Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam’s Razor in Error Correctors

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2004)

DOI: nan

Empirical experience and observations have shown us when powerful and highly tunable classifiers such as maximum en- tropy classifiers, boosting and SVMs are applied to language processing tasks, it is …...

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Boosting-based Parse Reranking with Subtree Features

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2005)

DOI: nan

This paper introduces a new application of boost- ing for parse reranking. Several parsers have been proposed that utilize the all-subtrees representa- tion (e.g., tree kernel and data oriented parsing). …...

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Minimum Sample Risk Methods for Language Modeling

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2005)

DOI: nan

This paper proposes a new discriminative training method, called minimum sample risk (MSR), of estimating parameters of language models for text input. While most existing discriminative training methods use a …...

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A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2007)

DOI: nan

This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics community: Maximum Entropy (ME) …...

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Applying boosting to statistical machine translation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2008)

DOI: nan

. Boosting is a general method for improving the accuracy of a given learning algorithm under certain restrictions. In this work, AdaBoost, one of the most popular boosting algorithms, is …...

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Boosting-Based System Combination for Machine Translation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2010)

DOI: nan

In this paper, we present a simple and effective method to address the issue of how to generate diversified translation systems from a single Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) engine for …...

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SeemGo: Conditional Random Fields Labeling and Maximum Entropy Classification for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2014)

DOI: nan

This paper describes our SeemGo sys- tem for the task of Aspect Based Sen- timent Analysis in SemEval-2014. The subtask of aspect term extraction is cast as a sequence labeling …...

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Boosting for Efficient Model Selection for Syntactic Parsing

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2016)

DOI: nan

AbstractWe present an efficient model selection method using boosting for transition-based constituency parsing. It is designed for exploring a high-dimensional search space, defined by a large set of feature templates, …...

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Boosting Dialog Response Generation

Authors: nan

Publication: TIPSTER (2019)

DOI: nan

AbstractNeural models have become one of the most important approaches to dialog response generation. However, they still tend to generate the most common and generic responses in the corpus all …...

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