We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...
Named Entity Recognition is a relatively well-understood NLP task, with many publicly available training resources and software for English. Other languages tend to be underserved...
This work applies boosted wrapper induction (BWI), a machine learning algorithm for information extraction from semi-structured documents, to the problem of named entity recogniti...
The two most important tasks in entity information summarization from the Web are named entity recognition and relation extraction. Little work has been done toward an integrated ...
We explore the use of Wikipedia as external knowledge to improve named entity recognition (NER). Our method retrieves the corresponding Wikipedia entry for each candidate word seq...