#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.
other,37-4-J05-1003,ak
overlap and without the need to define a
<term>
derivation
</term>
or a
<term>
generative model
</term>
#8112The strength of our approach is that it allows a tree to be represented as an arbitrary set of features, without concerns about how these features interact or overlap and without the need to define aderivation or a generative model which takes these features into account.
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,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.
other,45-4-J05-1003,ak
generative model
</term>
which takes these
<term>
features
</term>
into account . We introduce a new
#8120The strength of our approach is that it allows a tree to be represented as an arbitrary set of features, without concerns about how these features interact or overlap and without the need to define a derivation or a generative model which takes thesefeatures into account.
other,25-7-J05-1003,ak
additional 500,000
<term>
features
</term>
over
<term>
parse trees
</term>
that were not included in the original
#8189The method combined the log-likelihood under a baseline model (that of Collins [1999]) with evidence from an additional 500,000 features overparse trees that were not included in the original model.
model,2-8-J05-1003,ak
original
<term>
model
</term>
. The new
<term>
model
</term>
achieved 89.75 %
<term>
F-measure
</term>
#8202The newmodel achieved 89.75% F-measure, a 13% relative decrease in F-measure error over the baseline model’s score of 88.2%.
model,2-3-J05-1003,ak
these
<term>
parses
</term>
. A second
<term>
model
</term>
then attempts to improve upon this
#8056A secondmodel then attempts to improve upon this initial ranking, using additional features of the tree as evidence.
other,14-3-J05-1003,ak
<term>
ranking
</term>
, using additional
<term>
features
</term>
of the
<term>
tree
</term>
as evidence
#8068A second model then attempts to improve upon this initial ranking, using additionalfeatures of the tree as evidence.
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.
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%.
tech,23-12-J05-1003,ak
should be applicable to many other
<term>
NLP problems
</term>
which are naturally framed as
<term>
#8324Although the experiments in this article are on natural language parsing (NLP), the approach should be applicable to many otherNLP problems which are naturally framed as ranking tasks, for example, speech recognition, machine translation, or natural language generation.
tech,13-5-J05-1003,ak
reranking task
</term>
, based on the
<term>
boosting approach to ranking problems
</term>
described in Freund et al. ( 1998
#8137We introduce a new method for the reranking task, based on theboosting approach to ranking problems described in Freund et al. (1998).
other,30-12-J05-1003,ak
</term>
which are naturally framed as
<term>
ranking tasks
</term>
, for example ,
<term>
speech recognition
#8331Although 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 asranking tasks, for example, speech recognition, machine translation, or natural language generation.
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,40-4-J05-1003,ak
define a
<term>
derivation
</term>
or a
<term>
generative model
</term>
which takes these
<term>
features
</term>
#8115The strength of our approach is that it allows a tree to be represented as an arbitrary set of features, without concerns about how these features interact or overlap and without the need to define a derivation or agenerative model which takes these features into account.
other,16-9-J05-1003,ak
</term>
which takes advantage of the
<term>
sparsity
</term>
of the
<term>
feature space
</term>
in
#8242The article also introduces a new algorithm for the boosting approach which takes advantage of thesparsity of the feature space in the parsing data.
other,17-3-J05-1003,ak
additional
<term>
features
</term>
of the
<term>
tree
</term>
as evidence . The strength of our
#8071A second model then attempts to improve upon this initial ranking, using additional features of thetree as evidence.
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,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.