Algorithm that learns what's in a name

Machine Learning

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 211-231

  Bikel, Daniel M ^a,b   Schwartz, Richard ^a   Weischedel, Ralph M ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032632354     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007558221122     Document Type: Article

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