... University Ming Chuan University Taoyuan, Taiwan Taoyuan, Taiwan Taoyuan, Taiwan bcbb@db.csie.ncu.edu.tw yang@cl.ncu.edu.tw lees@mcu.edu.tw Abstract Kernel methods such as support vector ma-chines ... competitive and satisfactory performance in many classification tasks, such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging (Gimenez and Marquez, 2003), shallow parsing (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2001, 2004; Lee and Wu, ... Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Demo and Poster Sessions, pages 6 5–6 8,Prague, June 2007.c2007 Association for Computational Linguistics An Approximate Approach for Training Polynomial Kernel SVMs...