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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
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Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition with Automatically Generated Gazetteer Lists
Current Named Entity Recognition systems suffer from the lack of hand-tagged data as well as degradation when moving to other domain. This paper explores two aspects: the automati...
Zornitsa Kozareva
EMNLP
2004
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Trained Named Entity Recognition using Distributional Clusters
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...
Dayne Freitag
ACL
2006
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Improving the Scalability of Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Named Entity Recognition
This paper presents techniques to apply semi-CRFs to Named Entity Recognition tasks with a tractable computational cost. Our framework can handle an NER task that has long named e...
Daisuke Okanohara, Yusuke Miyao, Yoshimasa Tsuruok...
ACL
2004
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Multi-Criteria-based Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition
In this paper, we propose a multi-criteriabased active learning approach and effectively apply it to named entity recognition. Active learning targets to minimize the human annota...
Dan Shen, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew L...
IJCAI
2007
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Locating Complex Named Entities in Web Text
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of locating and classifying names in text. In previous work, NER was limited to a small number of predefined entity classes (e.g., peop...
Doug Downey, Matthew Broadhead, Oren Etzioni
LWA
2008
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Enhanced Services for Targeted Information Retrieval by Event Extraction and Data Mining
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...
Felix Jungermann, Katharina Morik
LREC
2008
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ASV Toolbox: a Modular Collection of Language Exploration Tools
ASV Toolbox is a modular collection of tools for the exploration of written language data both for scientific and educational purposes. It includes modules that operate on word li...
Chris Biemann, Uwe Quasthoff, Gerhard Heyer, Flori...
IJCAI
2007
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One Class per Named Entity: Exploiting Unlabeled Text for Named Entity Recognition
In this paper, we present a simple yet novel method of exploiting unlabeled text to further improve the accuracy of a high-performance state-of-theart named entity recognition (NE...
Yingchuan Wong, Hwee Tou Ng
LREC
2008
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Improving NER in Arabic Using a Morphological Tagger
We discuss a named entity recognition system for Arabic, and show how we incorporated the information provided by MADA, a full morphological tagger which uses a morphological anal...
Benjamin Farber, Dayne Freitag, Nizar Habash, Owen...
LREC
2008
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Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers on Language Technology
We describe methods for extracting interesting factual relations from scientific texts in computational linguistics and language technology taken from the ACL Anthology. We use a ...
Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Fed...