Sources of performance in CRF transfer training: a business name-tagging case study. Vilain, M, Huggins, J. H, & Wellner, B. Proc. of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2009.
Sources of performance in CRF transfer training: a business name-tagging case study [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This paper explores methods for increasing performance of CRF models, with a particular concern for transfer learning. We consider in particular the transfer case from political news to hard-to-tag business news, and show the effectiveness of several methods, including a novel semi-supervised approach.

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