Classifying Number Expressions in German Corpora

Number and date expressions are essential information items in corpora and therefore play a major role in various text mining applications. However, so far number expressions were investigated in a rather superficial manner. In this paper we introduce a comprehensive number classification and present promising, initial results of a classification experiment using various Machine Learning algorithms (amongst others AdaBoost and Maximum Entropy) to extract and classify number expressions in a German newspaper corpus.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: GFKL
• Authors: Irene M. Cramer, Stefan Schacht, Andreas Merkel
• Keywords: Comprehensive Number Classification, Data Mining, Date Expressions, GFKL 2007, Number Expressions