probabilities
</term>
that define an initial
<term>
ranking
</term>
of these
<term>
parses
</term>
. A second
#8049The base parser produces a set of candidate parses for each input sentence, with associated probabilities that define an initialranking of these parses.
tech,9-9-J05-1003,ak
a new
<term>
algorithm
</term>
for the
<term>
boosting approach
</term>
which takes advantage of the
<term>
#8235The article also introduces a new algorithm for theboosting approach which takes advantage of the sparsity of the feature space in the parsing data.
other,19-4-J05-1003,ak
represented as an arbitrary set of
<term>
features
</term>
, without concerns about how these
#8094The strength of our approach is that it allows a tree to be represented as an arbitrary set offeatures, without concerns about how these features interact or overlap and without the need to define a derivation or a generative model which takes these features into account.
other,7-5-J05-1003,ak
We introduce a new method for the
<term>
reranking task
</term>
, based on the
<term>
boosting approach
#8131We introduce a new method for thereranking task, based on the boosting approach to ranking problems described in Freund et al. (1998).
measure(ment),6-8-J05-1003,ak
<term>
model
</term>
achieved 89.75 %
<term>
F-measure
</term>
, a 13 % relative decrease in
<term>
#8206The new model achieved 89.75%F-measure, a 13% relative decrease in F-measure error over the baseline model’s score of 88.2%.
model,25-11-J05-1003,ak
feature selection methods
</term>
within
<term>
log-linear ( maximum-entropy ) models
</term>
. Although the experiments in this
#8295We argue that the method is an appealing alternative—in terms of both simplicity and efficiency—to work on feature selection methods withinlog-linear ( maximum-entropy ) models.
tech,3-6-J05-1003,ak
Freund et al. ( 1998 ) . We apply the
<term>
boosting method
</term>
to parsing the
<term>
Wall Street Journal
#8154We apply theboosting method to parsing the Wall Street Journal treebank.
tech,8-12-J05-1003,ak
experiments in this article are on
<term>
natural language parsing ( NLP )
</term>
, the approach should be applicable
#8309Although the experiments in this article are onnatural language parsing ( NLP ), the approach should be applicable to many other NLP problems which are naturally framed as ranking tasks, for example, speech recognition, machine translation, or natural language generation.
model,18-8-J05-1003,ak
<term>
F-measure error
</term>
over the
<term>
baseline model ’s
</term>
score of 88.2 % . The article also
#8218The new model achieved 89.75% F-measure, a 13% relative decrease in F-measure error over thebaseline model ’s score of 88.2%.
other,23-9-J05-1003,ak
the
<term>
feature space
</term>
in the
<term>
parsing data
</term>
. Experiments show significant efficiency
#8249The article also introduces a new algorithm for the boosting approach which takes advantage of the sparsity of the feature space in theparsing data.
tech,15-10-J05-1003,ak
the obvious implementation of the
<term>
boosting approach
</term>
. We argue that the method is an
#8267Experiments show significant efficiency gains for the new algorithm over the obvious implementation of theboosting approach.
tech,36-12-J05-1003,ak
ranking tasks
</term>
, for example ,
<term>
speech recognition
</term>
,
<term>
machine translation
</term>
#8337Although the experiments in this article are on natural language parsing (NLP), the approach should be applicable to many other NLP problems which are naturally framed as ranking tasks, for example,speech recognition, machine translation, or natural language generation.
other,4-7-J05-1003,ak
treebank
</term>
. The method combined the
<term>
log-likelihood under a baseline model
</term>
( that of Collins [ 1999 ] ) with
#8168The method combined thelog-likelihood under a baseline model (that of Collins [1999]) with evidence from an additional 500,000 features over parse trees that were not included in the original model.
other,11-2-J05-1003,ak
<term>
candidate parses
</term>
for each
<term>
input sentence
</term>
, with associated
<term>
probabilities
#8039The base parser produces a set of candidate parses for eachinput sentence, with associated probabilities that define an initial ranking of these parses.
tech,1-2-J05-1003,ak
<term>
probabilistic parser
</term>
. The
<term>
base parser
</term>
produces a set of
<term>
candidate
#8029Thebase parser produces a set of candidate parses for each input sentence, with associated probabilities that define an initial ranking of these parses.
tech,43-12-J05-1003,ak
<term>
machine translation
</term>
, or
<term>
natural language generation
</term>
. We present a novel method for discovering
#8344Although the experiments in this article are on natural language parsing (NLP), the approach should be applicable to many other NLP problems which are naturally framed as ranking tasks, for example, speech recognition, machine translation, ornatural language generation.
measure(ment),14-8-J05-1003,ak
</term>
, a 13 % relative decrease in
<term>
F-measure error
</term>
over the
<term>
baseline model ’s
</term>
#8214The new model achieved 89.75% F-measure, a 13% relative decrease inF-measure error over the baseline model’s score of 88.2%.
lr,8-6-J05-1003,ak
boosting method
</term>
to parsing the
<term>
Wall Street Journal treebank
</term>
. The method combined the
<term>
log-likelihood
#8159We apply the boosting method to parsing theWall Street Journal treebank.
tech,8-10-J05-1003,ak
significant efficiency gains for the new
<term>
algorithm
</term>
over the obvious implementation of
#8260Experiments show significant efficiency gains for the newalgorithm over the obvious implementation of the boosting approach.
tech,39-12-J05-1003,ak
,
<term>
speech recognition
</term>
,
<term>
machine translation
</term>
, or
<term>
natural language generation
#8340Although the experiments in this article are on natural language parsing (NLP), the approach should be applicable to many other NLP problems which are naturally framed as ranking tasks, for example, speech recognition,machine translation, or natural language generation.