Using the web as an implicit training set

Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst · 2005

Recent work has shown that very large corpora can act as training data for NLP algorithms even without explicit labels. In this paper we show how the use of surface features and paraphrases in queries against search engines can be used to infer labels for structural ambiguity resolution tasks. Using unsupervised algorithms, we achieve 84% precision on PP-attachment and 80% on noun compound coordination.

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