Accurate Argumentative Zoning with Maximum Entropy models

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  • Stephen Merity
  • Tara Murphy
  • James R. Curran
چکیده

We present a maximum entropy classifier that significantly improves the accuracy of Argumentative Zoning in scientific literature. We examine the features used to achieve this result and experiment with Argumentative Zoning as a sequence tagging task, decoded with Viterbi using up to four previous classification decisions. The result is a 23% F-score increase on the Computational Linguistics conference papers marked up by Teufel (1999). Finally, we demonstrate the performance of our system in different scientific domains by applying it to a corpus of Astronomy journal articles annotated using a modified Argumentative Zoning scheme.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009