Corpora: French and German chunking

[E S Atwell]

Patrick,

the chunking task is one of the key themes of CoNLL'2000, Sept13-14,Lisbon,
with several papers on Natural Language Learning approaches:

C. Johansson: A Context Sensitive Maximum Likelihood Approach to Chunking

M. Vilain/D. Day: MITRE's Alembic System as used for the CoNLL Chunking Task

J. Veenstra/A. Van den Bosch: Single-Classifier Memory-Based Phrase Chunking

F. Pla/A. Molina/N. Prieto: Improving Chunking by means of Lexical-Context
Information in Statistical Language Models

M. Osborne: Shallow Parsing as Part-of-Speech Tagging

R. Koeling: Chunking with Maximum Entropy Models

Zhou GuoDong/Tey TongGuan/Su Jian: Hybrid Text Chunking

E. Tjong Kim Sang: Text Chunking by System Combination

T. Kudoh/Y. Matsumoti: Use of Support Vector Learning for Chunk Identification

H. Van Halteren: Chunking with WPDV Models

The programme for the CoNLL meeting and registration information are  now
available on the web-pages:

http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/

http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/programme.html
http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/programme.doc
http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/registration/registration.html

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Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Patrick Ruch wrote:

> I am looking for information (paper, links, and mainly resources...)
> about chunking of French and German texts, but English studies
> are welcome.
> I am interested both in extracting syntactic patterns likely to describe
> chunks (as for example DET ADJ N for NPs), and applying such rules
> for the chunking task.
> An application of it could be to use phrase boundaries in order to solve
> lexical ambiguities.
>
> -Patrick
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