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Distributed English Text Chunking Using Multi-agent Based Architecture

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The traditional English text chunking approach identifies phrases by using only one model and phrases with the same types of features. It has been shown that the limitations of using only one model are that: the use of the same types of features is not suitable for all phrases, and data sparseness may also result. In this paper, the Distributed Multi-Agent based architecture approach is proposed and applied in the identification of English phrases. This strategy put phrases into agents according to their sensitive features and identifies different phrases in parallel, where the main features are: one, easy and quick communication between phrases; two, avoidance of data sparseness. By applying and testing the approach on the public training and test corpus, the F score for arbitrary phrases identification using Distributed Multi-Agent strategy achieves 95.70% compared to the previous best F score of 94.17%.

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60375019); the International Cooperate Project of Sino-Ireland (Grant No. CI-2003-03).

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Liang, YH., Zhao, TJ. (2005). Distributed English Text Chunking Using Multi-agent Based Architecture. In: Gelbukh, A., de Albornoz, Á., Terashima-Marín, H. (eds) MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3789. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11579427_76

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