4 papers
Using Decision Trees for Coreference Resolution
Joseph F. McCarthy, Wendy G. Lehnert
This paper describes RESOLVE, a system that uses decision trees to learn how to classify coreferent phrases in the domain of business joint ventures. An experiment is presented in…
CRYSTAL: Inducing a Conceptual Dictionary
Stephen Soderland, David Fisher, Jonathan Aseltine +1
One of the central knowledge sources of an information extraction system is a dictionary of linguistic patterns that can be used to identify the conceptual content of a text. This…
Wrap-Up: a Trainable Discourse Module for Information Extraction
S. Soderland, Lehnert. W
The vast amounts of on-line text now available have led to renewed interest in information extraction (IE) systems that analyze unrestricted text, producing a structured representa…
Corpus-Driven Knowledge Acquisition for Discourse Analysis
Stephen Soderland, Wendy Lehnert
The availability of large on-line text corpora provides a natural and promising bridge between the worlds of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). In recent…