Contents

• Contents
• 1. Preface
  • 1.1 How to Read this Report
  • 1.2 Contacting the Authors
• 2. An Introduction to Transformation-Based Learning
  • 2.1 The Algorithm Description
  • 2.2 The Speedup
• 3. System Description
  • 3.1 The Parameter File
  • 3.2 File Formats
    • 3.2.1 Training and Test File Formats
    • 3.2.2 FILE_TEMPLATES
    • 3.2.3 RULE_TEMPLATES
    • 3.2.4 The Rule File Format
    • 3.2.5 The Constraints File
• 4. Using The Toolkit
  • 4.1 Creating the Training/Test Files
  • 4.2 Training using fnTBL
  • 4.3 Classification using fnTBL
  • 4.4 Warnings and Errors
  • 4.5 Rule Interaction
  • 4.6 Termination Conditions
  • 4.7 Data Representation Size
  • 4.8 Bug Reports
• 5. Test Cases
  • 5.1 Base Noun Phrase Chunking
    • 5.1.1 Creating the Training and Test Data
    • 5.1.2 Training the baseNP Chunker
    • 5.1.3 Testing using fnTBL
  • 5.2 POS Tagging
    • 5.2.1 Lexical POS Tagging - Guessing the Unknown Words
    • 5.2.2 Contextual POS Tagging
    • 5.2.3 TBL POS Tagging Without Headaches
  • 5.3 Word Sense Disambiguation
    • 5.3.1 Data Preparation
    • 5.3.2 Rule Types
    • 5.3.3 Training the System
    • 5.3.4 Testing the System
• Acknowledgements
• A. Appendix
  • A.1 Parameter File Variables
  • A.2 Additional Tools Provided
• Bibliography
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