@inproceedings{oostdijk-van-halteren-2019-team,
    title = "Team {T}aurus at {S}em{E}val-2019 Task 9: Expert-informed pattern recognition for suggestion mining",
    author = "Oostdijk, Nelleke  and
      van Halteren, Hans",
    editor = "May, Jonathan  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Herbelot, Aurelie  and
      Zhu, Xiaodan  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Mohammad, Saif M.",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/S19-2219/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S19-2219",
    pages = "1247--1253",
    abstract = "This paper presents our submissions to SemEval-2019 Task9, Suggestion Mining. Our system is one in a series of systems in which we compare an approach using expert-defined rules with a comparable one using machine learning. We target tasks with a syntactic or semantic component that might be better described by a human understanding the task than by a machine learner only able to count features. For Semeval-2019 Task 9, the expert rules clearly outperformed our machine learning model when training and testing on equally balanced testsets."
}