Conditional random fields with dynamic potentials for Chinese named entity recognition.

Wu, Yiu Kei.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-75).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Chinese NER Problem --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Contribution of Our Proposed Framework --- p.3Chapter 2 --- Related Work --- p.6Chapter 2.1 --- Hidden Markov Models --- p.7Chapter 2.2 --- Maximum Entropy Models --- p.8Chapter 2.3 --- Conditional Random Fields --- p.10Chapter 3 --- Our Proposed Model --- p.14Chapter 3.1 --- Background --- p.14Chapter 3.1.1 --- Problem Formulation --- p.14Chapter 3.1.2 --- Conditional Random Fields --- p.16Chapter 3.1.3 --- Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields --- p.26Chapter 3.2 --- The Formulation of Our Proposed Model --- p.28Chapter 3.2.1 --- The Main Principle --- p.28Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Detailed Formulation --- p.36Chapter 3.2.3 --- Adapting Features from Original CRF to CRFDP --- p.51Chapter 4 --- Experiments --- p.54Chapter 4.1 --- Datasets --- p.55Chapter 4.2 --- Features --- p.57Chapter 4.3 --- Evaluation Metrics --- p.61Chapter 4.4 --- Results and Discussion --- p.63Chapter 5 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.67Bibliography --- p.69A --- p.76B --- p.78C --- p.8