... Science and Information Engineering National Central University National Central University Ming Chuan University Taoyuan, Taiwan Taoyuan, Taiwan Taoyuan, Taiwan bcbb@db.csie.ncu.edu.tw yang@cl.ncu.edu.tw ... and Marquez, 2003), shallow parsing (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2001, 2004; Lee and Wu, 2007), named entity recognition (Isozaki and Kazawa, 2002), and parsing (Nivre et al., 2006). In particular, ... successfully applied to many natural language processing (NLP) problems. They yielded very competitive and satisfactory performance in many classification tasks, such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging...