文档介绍：Natural Language Annotation for
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D James Pustejovsky and Amber Stubbs
Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo
Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning
by James Pustejovsky and Amber Stubbs
Revision History for the :
2012-03-06 Early release revision 1
2012-03-26 Early release revision 2
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ISBN: 978-1-449-30666-3
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
1. The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Importance of Language Annotation 1
The Layers of Linguistic Description 2
What is Natural Language Processing? 4
A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics 5
What is a Corpus? 7
Early Use of Corpora 9
Corpora Today 12
Kinds of Annotation 13
Language Data and Machine Learning 18
Classification 19
Clustering 19
Structured Pattern Induction 19
The Annotation Development Cycle 20
Model the phenomenon 21
Annotate with the Specification 24
Train and Test the algorithms over the corpus 25
Evaluate the results 26
Revise the Model and Algorithms 27
Summary 28
2. Defining Your Goal and Dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Defining a goal 31
The Statement of Purpose 32
Refining your Goal: Informativity versus Correctness 33
Background research 38
Language Resources 39
Organizations and Conferences 39
NLP Challenges 40
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Assembling your dataset 40
Collecting data from the 41
Eliciting data from people 41
Preparing your data for annotation 42
Metadata 42
Pre-processed data 43
The size of your corpus 44
Existing Corpora 44
Distributions within corpora 45
Summary 47
3. Buildin