Corpora: BOOTSTRAPPING

[Pete Whitelock]

I would say bootstrapping (in the corpora context) means to use the output
of one version of a system as (part of) the input to the next version. The
iterative improvement is analogous to picking oneself up by one's
bootstraps. 

So one might start with a parser that had no knowledge of attachment
preferences, attach only where unambiguous, count up the results and then
use the results in the next version of the parser to attach in ambiguous
cases.

Pete

> 
> Forgive my lack of knowledge but could anybody explain the 
> meaning of the
> term 'bootstrapping' please?. 
> Best regards, Mª Dolores
> 
> 

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