Background - Aster Analytics

Teradata AsterĀ® Analytics Foundation User GuideUpdate 2

Product
Aster Analytics
Release Number
7.00.02
Published
September 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-04-17
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Text chunking (also called shallow parsing) divides text into phrases in such a way that syntactically related words become members of the same phrase. Phrases do not overlap; that is, a word is a member of only one chunk.

For example, the sentence "He reckons the current account deficit will narrow to only # 1.8 billion in September ." can be divided as follows, with brackets delimiting phrases:

[NP He] [VP reckons] [NP the current account deficit] [VP will narrow] [PP to] [NP only # 1.8 billion] [PP in] [NP September]

After each opening bracket is a tag that identifies the chunk type (NP, VP, and so on). For information about chunk types, see Output.

For more information about text chunking, see:

  • Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang and Sabine Buchholz, Introduction to the CoNLL-2000 Shared Task: Chunking. In: Proceedings of CoNLL-2000 and LLL-2000, Lisbon, Portugal, 2000.
  • Fei Sha and Fernando Pereira, Shallow Parsing with Conditional Random Fields. [2003]