3 papers
cs.CL2000
Bootstrapping a Tagged Corpus through Combination of Existing Heterogeneous Taggers
Jakub Zavrel, Walter Daelemans
This paper describes a new method, Combi-bootstrap, to exploit existing taggers and lexical resources for the annotation of corpora with new tagsets. Combi-bootstrap uses existing…
cs.CL1998
Forgetting Exceptions is Harmful in Language Learning
Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch, Jakub Zavrel
We show that in language learning, contrary to received wisdom, keeping exceptional training instances in memory can be beneficial for generalization accuracy. We investigate this…
cmp-lg1998
Improving Data Driven Wordclass Tagging by System Combination
Hans van Halteren, Jakub Zavrel, Walter Daelemans
In this paper we examine how the differences in modelling between different data driven systems performing the same NLP task can be exploited to yield a higher accuracy than the be…