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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Paper uid="A00-1024"> <Title>Categorizing Unknown Words: Using Decision Trees to Identify Names and Misspellings</Title> <Section position="1" start_page="0" end_page="0" type="abstr"> <SectionTitle> Abstract </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> This paper introduces a system for categorizing unknown words. The system is based on a multi-component architecture where each component is responsible for identifying one class of unknown words.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="1"> The focus of this paper is the components that identify names and spelling errors. Each component uses a decision tree architecture to combine multiple types of evidence about the unknown word. The system is evaluated using data from live closed captions - a genre replete with a wide variety of unknown words.</Paragraph> </Section> class="xml-element"></Paper>