On 4/17/2012 9:25 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > On 04/17/2012 03:20 PM, Jason Baldridge wrote: >> I haven't followed this in detail, but I do wonder why we don't have a >> single model that just predicts all the types? That is the standard >> thing >> to do... > > We can do that. Anyway you could still end up in a situation where > you want to merge the output of multiple name finders. > Maybe you have a maxent name finder and a Dictionary or Regular > Expression > Name Finder. > > Then some application have a need to merge the names so there are no > overlaps. > > >> FWIW, integrating the output of multiple classifiers and incorporating >> their probabilities is something that can be done quite cleanly with >> approaches like Integer Linear Programming. > > Sounds interesting, do you have a paper on this? > > What do you think about having a simple baseline version? > > Jörn Jorn,
The current name finder throws away the names found with overlaps (ie: maxent model). We may want to also incorporate some of these kind of changes into that model as well. James
