Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning

343 Pages·2012·10.42 MB·English

by  James Pustejovsky

Natural Language Annotation for
Machine Learning
James Pustejovsky and Amber Stubbs
Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning
by James Pustejovsky and Amber Stubbs
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Table of Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
1. The Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Importance of Language Annotation 1
The Layers of Linguistic Description 3
What Is Natural Language Processing? 4
A Brief History of Corpus Linguistics 5
What Is a Corpus? 8
Early Use of Corpora 10
Corpora Today 13
Kinds of Annotation 14
Language Data and Machine Learning 21
Classification 22
Clustering 22
Structured Pattern Induction 22
The Annotation Development Cycle 23
Model the Phenomenon 24
Annotate with the Specification 27
Train and Test the Algorithms over the Corpus 29
Evaluate the Results 30
Revise the Model and Algorithms 31
Summary 31
2. Defining Your Goal and Dataset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Defining Your Goal 33
The Statement of Purpose 34
Refining Your Goal: Informativity Versus Correctness 35
Background Research 41
Language Resources 41
Organizations and Conferences 42
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NLP Challenges 43
Assembling Your Dataset 43
The Ideal Corpus: Representative and Balanced 45
Collecting Data from the Internet 46
Eliciting Data from People 46
The Size of Your Corpus 48
Existing Corpora 48
Distributions Within Corpora 49
Summary 51
3. Corpus Analytics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Basic Probability for Corpus Analytics 54
Joint Probability Distributions 55
Bayes Rule 57
Counting Occurrences 58
Zipf’s Law 61
N-grams 61
Language Models 63
Summary 65
4. Building Your Model and Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Some Example Models and Specs 68
Film Genre Classification 70
Adding Named Entities 71
Semantic Roles 72
Adopting (or Not Adopting) Existing Models 75
Creating Your Own Model and Specification: Generality Versus Specificity 76
Using Existing Models and Specifications 78
Using Models Without Specifications 79
Different Kinds of Standards 80
ISO Standards 80
Community-Driven Standards 83
Other Standards Affecting Annotation 83
Summary 84
5. Applying and Adopting Annotation Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Metadata Annotation: Document Classification 88
Unique Labels: Movie Reviews 88
Multiple Labels: Film Genres 90
Text Extent Annotation: Named Entities 94
Inline Annotation 94
Stand-off Annotation by Tokens 96
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Stand-off Annotation by Character Location 99
Linked Extent Annotation: Semantic Roles 101
ISO Standards and You 102
Summary 103
6. Annotation and Adjudication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
The Infrastructure of an Annotation Project 105
Specification Versus Guidelines 108
Be Prepared to Revise 109
Preparing Your Data for Annotation 110
Metadata 110
Preprocessed Data 110
Splitting Up the Files for Annotation 111
Writing the Annotation Guidelines 112
Example 1: Single Labels—Movie Reviews 113
Example 2: Multiple Labels—Film Genres 115
Example 3: Extent Annotations—Named Entities 119
Example 4: Link Tags—Semantic Roles 120
Annotators 122
Choosing an Annotation Environment 124
Evaluating the Annotations 126
Cohen’s Kappa (κ) 127
Fleiss’s Kappa (κ) 128
Interpreting Kappa Coefficients 131
Calculating κ in Other Contexts 132
Creating the Gold Standard (Adjudication) 134
Summary 135
7. Training: Machine Learning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
What Is Learning? 140
Defining Our Learning Task 142
Classifier Algorithms 144
Decision Tree Learning 145
Gender Identification 147
Naïve Bayes Learning 151
Maximum Entropy Classifiers 157
Other Classifiers to Know About 158
Sequence Induction Algorithms 160
Clustering and Unsupervised Learning 162
Semi-Supervised Learning 163
Matching Annotation to Algorithms 165
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Summary 166
8. Testing and Evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Testing Your Algorithm 170
Evaluating Your Algorithm 170
Confusion Matrices 171
Calculating Evaluation Scores 172
Interpreting Evaluation Scores 177
Problems That Can Affect Evaluation 178
Dataset Is Too Small 178
Algorithm Fits the Development Data Too Well 180
Too Much Information in the Annotation 181
Final Testing Scores 181
Summary 182
9. Revising and Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Revising Your Project 186
Corpus Distributions and Content 186
Model and Specification 187
Annotation 188
Training and Testing 189
Reporting About Your Work 189
About Your Corpus 191
About Your Model and Specifications 192
About Your Annotation Task and Annotators 192
About Your ML Algorithm 193
About Your Revisions 194
Summary 194
10. Annotation: TimeML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
The Goal of TimeML 198
Related Research 199
Building the Corpus 201
Model: Preliminary Specifications 201
Times 202
Signals 202
Events 203
Links 203
Annotation: First Attempts 204
Model: The TimeML Specification Used in TimeBank 204
Time Expressions 204
Events 205
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Signals 206
Links 207
Confidence 208
Annotation: The Creation of TimeBank 209
TimeML Becomes ISO-TimeML 211
Modeling the Future: Directions for TimeML 213
Narrative Containers 213
Expanding TimeML to Other Domains 215
Event Structures 216
Summary 217
11. Automatic Annotation: Generating TimeML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
The TARSQI Components 220
GUTime: Temporal Marker Identification 221
EVITA: Event Recognition and Classification 222
GUTenLINK 223
Slinket 224
SputLink 225
Machine Learning in the TARSQI Components 226
Improvements to the TTK 226
Structural Changes 227
Improvements to Temporal Entity Recognition: BTime 227
Temporal Relation Identification 228
Temporal Relation Validation 229
Temporal Relation Visualization 229
TimeML Challenges: TempEval-2 230
TempEval-2: System Summaries 231
Overview of Results 234
Future of the TTK 234
New Input Formats 234
Narrative Containers/Narrative Times 235
Medical Documents 236
Cross-Document Analysis 237
Summary 238
12. Afterword: The Future of Annotation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Crowdsourcing Annotation 239
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk 240
Games with a Purpose (GWAP) 241
User-Generated Content 242
Handling Big Data 243
Boosting 243
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Active Learning 244
Semi-Supervised Learning 245
NLP Online and in the Cloud 246
Distributed Computing 246
Shared Language Resources 247
Shared Language Applications 247
And Finally... 248
A. List of Available Corpora and Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
B. List of Software Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
C. MAE User Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
D. MAI User Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
E. Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
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