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... utilize a state of the art parser for PS trees (Charniak, 1999), and transform eachcandidate to TDS. This strategy can be considered a first step to efficiently test and compare differentmodels before ... Portugal.Federico Sangati and Chiara Mazza. 2009. An EnglishDependency Treebank` a la Tesni`ere. In The 8th In-ternational Workshop on Treebanks and LinguisticTheories, pages 173–184, Milan, ... Lucie Mladov´ a, JanaˇSindlerov´ a, Krist´yna Tomˇs˚u, and ZdenˇekˇZabokrtsk´y. 2009. Tectogrammatical Annotation of the Wall Street Journal. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics,...
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... lan-guage, excluding function words, while Ueyamaand Baroni (2005) built corpora of Japanese usingseed words from a basic Japanese vocabulary list.Both Sharoff and Ueyama and Baroni evaluatedthe ... construct a “balanced” corpus via a searchengine one reasonable strategy is to use appro-priately balanced query terms, e.g., using ran-dom terms extracted from an available balancedcorpus (Sharoff, ... through a manual classification of theretrieved pages and by qualitative analysis of thewords that are most typical of the Web corpora.We are also interested in evaluating the effectthat different...
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... more dynamic view ofa genre classification system. Automatic identification of text types and genres represents a great advantage in many fields because manual annotation is expensive and time-consuming. ... ca. 86%. An accuracy of 86% is a good achievement for a first implementation, especially if we consider that the standard Naïve Bayes classifier returns an accuracy of about 67%. Although slightly ... blog_augustine_0000024 704 of being argumentative_persuasive shows a high gradation of argumentation. Gradations/ probabilities are ranked for each web page. The computation of text types as...
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