Hedge detection and scope finding by sequence labeling with normalized feature selection

  • Authors:
  • Shaodian Zhang;Hai Zhao;Guodong Zhou;Bao-Liang Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Soochow University;Soochow University;Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Venue:
  • CoNLL '10: Shared Task Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning --- Shared Task
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a system which adopts a standard sequence labeling technique for hedge detection and scope finding. For the first task, hedge detection, we formulate it as a hedge labeling problem, while for the second task, we use a two-step labeling strategy, one for hedge cue labeling and the other for scope finding. In particular, various kinds of syntactic features are systemically exploited and effectively integrated using a large-scale normalized feature selection method. Evaluation on the CoNLL-2010 shared task shows that our system achieves stable and competitive results for all the closed tasks. Furthermore, post-deadline experiments show that the performance can be much further improved using a sufficient feature selection.