... Modifications to the Machine Learning FrameworkThis section studies the effect of three changes to the general machinelearning framework employedby Soon et al. with the goal of improving precisionin ... NP, we assumethat the most confident antecedent is the closest non- ImprovingMachineLearningApproachestoCoreference Resolution Vincent Ng and Claire CardieDepartment of Computer ScienceCornell ... modifications to the machine learning framework, which together pro-vide substantial and statistically significant gainsin coreferenceresolution precision. Second, in anattempt to understand...
... 7–12 July 2002, pp.352–359.Ng, Vincent & Claire Cardie (2002). Improvingmachine learn-ing approachestocoreference resolution. In Proceedings ofthe 40th Annual Meeting of the Association ... the input to her algorithm to be only referential pronouns. Thissimplifies the task considerably.7 Conclusions and Future WorkWe presented a machinelearning approach to pro-noun resolution ... anupper limit for what the resolution of these kinds ofanaphors can contribute at all. These facts have to bekept in mind when comparing our results to resultsof coreferenceresolution in written...
... in (Strube et al.,2002) is one of the few dealing with the applica-tion of machinelearningto German coreference resolution covering definite noun phrases, propernames and personal, possessive ... rela-tion to the antecedent. The values for this at-tribute are ”direct”, ”pronominal”, and ”ISA”(hyponym-hyperonym). To mark coreference, MMAX uses coreference sets, such that every new reference to ... described in this pa-per.(McCarthy and Lehnert, 1995) were amongthe first to use machinelearning for coreference resolution. RESOLVE was trained on data fromMUC-5 English Joint Venture (EJV)...
... thismethod to unsupervised learningto overcome thelack of training data. However their model alsohas the same problem. McDonald (McDonald,2006) independently proposed a new machine learning ... sentences some-times do not correspond. To solve the former problem, we apply a maxi-mum entropy model to Knight and Marcu’s model to introduce machinelearning features that are de-fined not ... University of Tokyo3School of Informatics, University of Manchester4SORST, JSTHongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan{unno, yusuke, tsujii}@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jpninomi@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jpAbstractSentence...
... metrics to choose from,MT developers need a way to evaluate them. Onepossibility is to examine whether the automatic met-ric ranks the human reference translations highlywith respect tomachine ... criteria. Machinelearning af-fords a unified framework to compose these crite-ria into a single metric. In this paper, we havedemonstrated the viability of a regression approach to learning ... Linguistics.Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon, and Chris Brockett.2001. A machinelearning approach to the automatic eval-uation of machine translation. In Proceedings of the 39thAnnual Meeting of...
... set to a value close enough to 0 to allow the learners to converge by stopping their exploration. In our work, we start with a very high value for the temperature to force the agents to make ... of these approaches can be found in [9]. Inductive approaches- To be able to make an optimal routing decision, according to relevant performance criteria, a network node requires to have a ... action a is a vector of single action made by distributed agents each associated with one of the n routers. Learning here means iteratively improving the selection policy according to the maximization...
... 2001. A machine learning approach tocoreferenceresolution of nounphrases. Computational Linguistics, 27(4):521544.M. Strube and C. Măuller. 2003. A machinelearning ap-proach to pronoun resolution ... and C. Cardie. 2002b. Improvingmachine learn-ing approachestocoreference resolution. In Proc. ofthe ACL, pages 104–111.J. R. Quinlan. 1993. C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning. Morgan Kaufmann.W. ... (NPs)in a text or dialogue refer to which real-worldentity — has exhibited a shift from knowledge-based approachesto data-driven approaches, yield-ing learning- based coreference systems that rivaltheir...
... redesign of AI systems to conform to newknowledge is impractical, but machinelearning metho ds mightbeable to trackmuchofit.1.1.2 Wellsprings of Machine Learning Workinmachine learning is nowconverging ... variablesIntroduction toMachine Learning c1996 Nils J. Nilsson. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AN EARLY DRAFT OF A PROPOSEDTEXTBOOKNils J. NilssonRob otics Lab oratoryDepartment ... Bibliographical and Historical RemarksTobeadded.Every chapterwill contain abrief survey ofthe history ofthe materialcovered in thatchapter.Introduction toMachine Learning c1996 Nils...
... teaching and learning 1.2. Vocabulary in language teaching and learning 1.3. Approachesto language teaching and their 1.3. Approachesto language teaching and their relevance to vocabularyrelevance ... have to talk to express or exchange their have to talk to express or exchange their ideas with their partners. It can lead to ideas with their partners. It can lead to better word learning. ... things faster and better 1.3. Approachesto language teaching and 1.3. Approachesto language teaching and their relevance to vocabularytheir relevance to vocabulary1.4. Recent research...
... USAme@hal3.nameAbstractWe present a method to transliterate namesin the framework of end -to- end statistical machine translation. The system is trained to learn when to transliterate. For Arabic to English MT, we developed ... transliterator described in section3 to the tagged items. We limit this transliter-ation to words that occur up to 50 times in thetraining corpus for single token names (or up to 100 and 150 times for ... restricted to cap-italized words (with a few exceptions).We use a list of about 200 Arabic and Englishstopwords and stopword pairs.We use lists of countries and their adjectiveforms to bridge...
... v1, yi , . . . , vn, yn} are given as input to theME classifier, which learns how to classify newvectors v, corresponding to unseen pairs of sen-tences S1, S2.We use nine ... substitutionof a single token. Moreover, we use high-level3We use Stanford University’s tokenizer and POS-tagger,and Porter’s stemmer.4Soundex is an algorithm intended to map English names to alphanumeric ... canbe used to recognize paraphrases. Theyall employ string similarity measures ap-plied to shallow abstractions of the inputsentences, and a Maximum Entropy clas-sifier to learn how to combine...
... attributed to two main factors. Firstly,the mapping from Cast3LB tags to LFG grammat-ical functions is not one -to- one. For example threeCast3LB tags (CC, MOD and ET) are all mapped to LFG ADJUNCT. ... present paper we use a machine- learning ap-proach in order to add Cast3LB function tags to nodes of basic constituent trees output by a prob-abilistic parser trained on Cast3LB. To our knowl-edge, ... (Daelemans et al., 2004) for Memory-Based Learning, the MaxEnt Toolkit (Le, 2004)for Maximum Entropy and LIBSVM (Chang andLin, 2001) for Support Vector Machines. ForTiMBL we used k nearest neighbors...