Named entity recognition (NER) for English typically involves one of three gold standards: MUC, CoNLL, or BBN, all created by costly manual annotation. Recent work has used Wikipe...
Background: Our approach to Task 1A was inspired by Tanabe and Wilbur's ABGene system [1,2]. Like Tanabe and Wilbur, we approached the problem as one of part-of-speech taggin...
Shuhei Kinoshita, K. Bretonnel Cohen, Philip V. Og...
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...
A route leads from a start location to a final destination and passes through geospatial entities that are picked according to search terms provided by the user. Each entity is pe...
Yaron Kanza, Roy Levin, Eliyahu Safra, Yehoshua Sa...
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...