... types of : , , and that denote the contexts consisting of the noun phrase that the tar-get noun heads, words to the left of the nounphrase, and words to its right, respectively. Then the template ... confidence of ratiois measured by the reciprocal of variance of the ratio (Tanaka, 1977). Variance is calculated by(6)where denotes the number of samples used forcalculating the ratio. Therefore, ... (the above two methods and their sevenvariants). The words in brackets denote the cor-pora used to learn decision lists; the symbol “+FB”means that the feedback corpus was simply added to the...