... recall, and F-scores on the chunking-function-tagging task, with standard devi-ation, using the input features words, attenuated words, gold-standard POS, and MBT POS, and combina-tions, on the maximal ... Task representation and evaluation methodTo formulate the task as a machine-learnable classi-fication task, we use a representation that encodes the joint task of chunking and function-tagging ... types of input. Second, there are indications thatincreasing the training set of language processingtasks produces much larger performance gains thanvarying among algorithms at fixed training...