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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Domain-independent entity extraction from web search query logs
Query logs of a Web search engine have been increasingly used as a vital source for data mining. This paper presents a study on largescale domain-independent entity extraction fro...
Alpa Jain, Marco Pennacchiotti
WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Boosting Biomedical Entity Extraction by Using Syntactic Patterns for Semantic Relation Discovery
Biomedical entity extraction from unstructured web documents is an important task that needs to be performed in order to discover knowledge in the veterinary medicine domain. In ge...
Svitlana Volkova, Doina Caragea, William H. Hsu, J...
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Scalable ad-hoc entity extraction from text collections
Supporting entity extraction from large document collections is important for enabling a variety of important data analysis tasks. In this paper, we introduce the "ad-hoc&quo...
Sanjay Agrawal, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaud...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Fine Grained Classification of Named Entities
While Named Entity extraction is useful in many natural language applications, the coarse categories that most NE extractors work with prove insufficient for complex applications ...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy
JUCS
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Improving the Performance of a Tagger Generator in an Information Extraction Application
: In this paper we present an experience in the extraction of named entities from Spanish texts using stacking. Named Entity Extraction (NEE) is a subtask of Information Extraction...
José A. Troyano, Fernando Enríquez, ...
JISE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Formalized Entity Extraction Methodology for Changeable Business Requirements
business requirement in the real world cannot be abstracted correctly into an entity-relationship schema. Once core entities are discovered, we can obtain an Entity-Relationship Di...
Namgyu Kim, Sangwon Lee, Songchun Moon
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Entity Extraction is a Boring Solved Problem - Or is it?
This paper presents empirical results that contradict the prevailing opinion that entity extraction is a boring solved problem. In particular, we consider data sets that resemble ...
Marc Vilain, Jennifer Su, Suzi Lubar
LREC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Improving Personal Name Search in the TIGR System
This paper describes the development and evaluation of enhancements to the specialized information retrieval capabilities of a multimodal reporting system. The system enables coll...
Keith J. Miller, Sarah McLeod, Elizabeth Schroeder...
IBERAMIA
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the Performance of a Named Entity Extractor by Applying a Stacking Scheme
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the way of improving the performance of a Named Entity Extraction (NEE) system by applying machine learning techniques and corpus transformat...
José A. Troyano, Víctor J. Dí...