Title | Bootstrapping Named Entity Annotation by Means of Active Machine Learning |
Publication Type | Thesis |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Olsson F |
University | University of Gothenburg |
Thesis Type | PhD |
ISBN Number | 978-91-87850-37-0 |
Keywords | machine learning, named entity |
Abstract | This thesis describes the development and in-depth empirical investigation of a method, called BootMark, for bootstrapping the marking up of named entities in textual documents. The reason for working with documents, as opposed to for instance sentences or phrases, is that the BootMark method is concerned with the creation of corpora. The claim made in the thesis is that BootMark requires a human annotator to manually annotate fewer documents in order to produce a named entity recognizer with a given performance, than would be needed if the documents forming the basis for the recognizer were randomly drawn from the same corpus. The intention is then to use the created named entity recognizer as a pre-tagger and thus eventually turn the manual annotation process into one in which the annotator reviews system-suggested annotations rather than creating new ones from scratch. The BootMark method consists of three phases: (1) Manual annotation of a set of documents; (2) Bootstrapping – active machine learning for the purpose of selecting which document to annotate next; (3) The remaining unannotated documents of the original corpus are marked up using pre-tagging with revision. |
URL | http://spraakdata.gu.se/publikationer/datalinguistica/DL21.pdf |
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