Chinese NE (Named Entity) recognition is a difficult problem because of the uncertainty in word segmentation and flexibility in language structure. This paper proposes the use of ...
This paper presents a Chinese word segmentation system that uses improved sourcechannel models of Chinese sentence generation. Chinese words are defined as one of the following fo...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Entity detection and tracking is a relatively new addition to the repertoire of natural language tasks. In this paper, we present a statistical language-independent framework for ...
Radu Florian, Hany Hassan, Abraham Ittycheriah, Ho...