... position.However, from the linguistic viewpoint, the physical position information can hardly grasp the relations between the linguistic structures.Therefore, besides the physical positioninformation, ... tomeasure the predictive power of a feature type infeature type analysis. Predictive Information Gain (PIG) For the prediction of rule R,PIG(Fx;R|F1,F2, ,Fi), the predictive informationgain ... TreeBank.SVPVPNNPPierreNNPVinkenMDwillVBjoinDT the NNboardINasDTaJJnonexecutiveNNdirectorNNPNov.CD29..NPNPNPPPNPFigure-1: The classification of feature types4.3 The smoothing method used in the experimentIn the information-theory-based feature type analysis model, we...