Hughes, J and Atwell, E (1994) The automated evaluation of inferred word classifications. In: Cohn, AG, (ed.) ECAI-94 Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ECAI-94: 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 08-12 Aug 1994, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. John Wiley & Sons , 535 - 539. ISBN 0471950696
Abstract
Although automatically inferring classifications of words has been attempted by many researchers recently, no formal attempts to evaluate their results were made. Instead they relied on a looks good to me intuitive self-evaluation. We outline a method by which automated word classification techniques can be fairly compared. The process by which words are automatically grouped into classes involves a number of decision points. The experiments selected a set of options for many of the decision points and rated each combination of the factors so that the most successful approach can be found. We directly compare some of the adopted approaches of other researchers with the set of factors that were found to produce the most linguistically plausible classification in our experiments. The evaluation method is also shown to be a valuable aid to highlighting approaches that are inefficient.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Hughes, J and Atwell, E (c) 1994, University of Leeds. Reproduced with permission from the copyright holders. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Artificial Intelligence & Biological Systems (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2014 10:40 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:29 |
Published Version: | http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81663 |