... of the ACL, pages 217–224,Sydney, July 2006.c2006 Association for Computational Linguistics Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate EvaluationMeasuresJun Suzuki, Erik McDermott ... evaluation measure for these tasks,namely, segmentation F-score. Our ex-periments show that our method performsbetter than standard CRF training. 1 Introduction Conditional random fields (CRFs) ... Japan{jun, mcd, isozaki}@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jpAbstractThis paper proposes a framework for train-ing Conditional Random Fields (CRFs)to optimize multivariate evaluation mea-sures, including non-linear...