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ACL
2011
12 years 9 months ago
Can Document Selection Help Semi-supervised Learning? A Case Study On Event Extraction
Annotating training data for event extraction is tedious and labor-intensive. Most current event extraction tasks rely on hundreds of annotated documents, but this is often not en...
Shasha Liao, Ralph Grishman
MM
2004
ACM
178views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
A bootstrapping framework for annotating and retrieving WWW images
Most current image retrieval systems and commercial search engines use mainly text annotations to index and retrieve WWW images. This research explores the use of machine learning...
HuaMin Feng, Rui Shi, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
AIRS
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Bootstrapping Approach for Geographic Named Entity Annotation
Abstract. Geographic named entities can be classified into many subtypes that are useful for applications such as information extraction and question answering. In this paper, we ...
Seungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee
KDD
2007
ACM
189views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Corroborate and learn facts from the web
The web contains lots of interesting factual information about entities, such as celebrities, movies or products. This paper describes a robust bootstrapping approach to corrobora...
Shubin Zhao, Jonathan Betz