3 papers
cs.CL2001
Multidimensional Transformation-Based Learning
Radu Florian, Grace Ngai
This paper presents a novel method that allows a machine learning algorithm following the transformation-based learning paradigm \cite{brill95:tagging} to be applied to multiple cl…
cs.CL2001
Transformation-Based Learning in the Fast Lane
Grace Ngai, Radu Florian
Transformation-based learning has been successfully employed to solve many natural language processing problems. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on many natural language p…
cs.CL2001
Rule Writing or Annotation: Cost-efficient Resource Usage for Base Noun Phrase Chunking
Grace Ngai, David Yarowsky
This paper presents a comprehensive empirical comparison between two approaches for developing a base noun phrase chunker: human rule writing and active learning using interactive…