... Schwartz and Hearst’smethod (SH) (2003), SaRAD (Adar, 2004), AL-ICE (Ao and Takagi, 2005), Chang and Sch¨utze’smethod (CS) (Chang and Sch¨utze, 2006), Nadeau and Turney’s method (NT) (Nadeau and ... characters are tagged with P labels. In Fig-ure 1 (b), the abbreviation is generated using the2nd and 3rd characters, skipping the subsequentthree characters, and then using the 7th character.In ... experiments onDPLVMs with random initialization and then se-lect a good start point. To reduce overfitting,we employed a L2Gaussian weight prior (Chen and Rosenfeld, 1999), with the objective...