Ambiguous person names are a problem in many forms of written text, including that which is found on the Web. In this paper we explore the use of unsupervised clustering techniques...
Programming Wireless Networks of Embedded Systems (WNES) is notoriously difficult and tedious. To simplify WNES programming, we propose Declarative Resource Naming (DRN) to progra...
Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Rajesh K. Gupta, Amin Va...
Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of dif...
William W. Cohen, Pradeep D. Ravikumar, Stephen E....
For many NLP tasks, including named entity tagging, semi-supervised learning has been proposed as a reasonable alternative to methods that require annotating large amounts of trai...
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...