Classifier combination for improved lexical disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • Eric Brill;Jun Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.;Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

  • Venue:
  • COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

One of the most exciting recent directions in machine learning is the discovery that the combination of multiple classifiers often results in significantly better performance than what can be achieved with a single classifier. In this paper, we first show that the errors made from three different state of the art part of speech taggers are strongly complementary. Next, we show how this complementatry behavior can be used to our advantage. By using contextual cues to guide tagger combination, we are able to derive a new tagger that achieves performance significantly greater than any of the individual taggers.