This paper investigates the application of cotraining and self-training to word sense disambiguation. Optimal and empirical parameter selection methods for co-training and self-training are investigated, with various degrees of error reduction. A new method that combines cotraining with majority voting is introduced, with the effect of smoothing the bootstrapping learning curves, and improving ...

This paper presents re-training, a bootstrapping algorithm that automatically acquires semantically annotated data, ensuring high levels of precision. This algorithm uses a corpus-based system of word sense disambiguation that relies on maximum entropy probability models. The re-training method consists of the iterative feeding of training-classification cycles with new and high-confidence exam...

background: in-service training courses are one of the most available programs that are used to improve the quantity and quality level of the staff services in various organizations, including libraries and information centers. with the advent of new technologies in the field of education, the problems and shortcomings of traditional in-service training courses were replaced with virtual ones. ...

Dosher and Lu (1998) [Perceptual learning reflects external noise filtering and internal noise reduction through channel reweighting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 95 (23), 13988-13993.] proposed three mechanisms of perceptual learning: stimulus enhancement, external noise exclusion, and multiplicative noise reduction. In this study, we used pr...