Bootstrapping via graph propagation

  • Authors:
  • Max Whitney;Anoop Sarkar

  • Affiliations:
  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Bootstrapping a classifier from a small set of seed rules can be viewed as the propagation of labels between examples via features shared between them. This paper introduces a novel variant of the Yarowsky algorithm based on this view. It is a bootstrapping learning method which uses a graph propagation algorithm with a well defined objective function. The experimental results show that our proposed bootstrapping algorithm achieves state of the art performance or better on several different natural language data sets.