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Emergent Linguistic Rules from Inducing Decision Trees: Disambiguating Discourse Clue Words

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Authors

Eric V. Siegel

Kathleen R. McKeown

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Abstract:

We apply decision tree induction to the problem of discourse clue word sense disambiguation. The automatic partitioning of the training set which is intrinsic to decision tree induction gives rise to linguistically viable rules.