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<Paper uid="W99-0606">
  <Title>Boosting Applied to Tagging and PP Attachment</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Boosting is a machine learning algorithm that is not well known in computational linguistics. We apply it to part-of-speech tagging and prepositional phrase attachment. Performance is very encouraging. We also show how to improve data quality by using boosting to identify annotation errors.</Paragraph>
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