Coling • Acl 2006

COLING • ACL 2006 21 st International Conference on

Features, Bagging, and System Combination for the Chinese POS Tagging Task

Character Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition

We describe the application of the LingPipe toolkit (Alias-i 2006) to Chinese word segmentation and named entity recognition. We provide results for the third SIGHAN Chinese language processing bakeoff (Levow 2006). F1 measures on the best performing corpora were .972 for word segmentation and .855 for person/location/organization named-

Coling • Acl 2006

We describe an unusual data set of thousands of annotated images with interesting sense phenomena. Natural language image sense annotation involves increased semantic complexities compared to disambiguating word senses when annotating text. These issues are discussed and illustrated, including the distinction between word senses and iconographic senses.

The Third International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff: Word Segmentation and Named Entity Recognition

The Third International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff was held in Spring 2006 to assess the state of the art in two important tasks: word segmentation and named entity recognition. Twenty-nine groups submitted result sets in the two tasks across two tracks and a total of five corpora. We found strong results in both tasks as well as continuing challenges.