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Title Using Machine Learning Methods to Improve Quality of Tagged Corpora and Learning Models
Authors Matsumoto Yuji (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan, matsu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp)
Yamashita Tatsuo (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan, tatuo-yg@is.aist-nara.ac.jp)
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Session Session WO1 - Corpus Tagging
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Abstract Corpus-based learning methods for natural language processing now provide a consistent way to achieve systems with good performance. A number of statistical learning models have been proposed and are used in most of the tasks which used to be handled by rule-based systems. When the learning systems come to such a level as competitive as manually constructed systems, both large scale training corpora and good learning models are of great importance. In this paper, we first discuss that the main hindrances to the improvement of corpus-based learning systems are the inconsistencies or the errors existing in the training corpus and the defectiveness in the learning model. We then show that some machine learning methods are useful for effective identification of the erroneous source in the training corpus. Finally, we discuss how the various types of errors should be coped with so as to improve the learning environments.