Applying machine learning for high-performance named-entity extraction

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 586-595

  Baluja, Shumeet ^b   Mittal, Vibhu O ^a   Sukthankar, Rahul ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; GLOSSARIES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

ENCODING LANGUAGES; NAMED-ENTITY EXTRACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0034315535     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0824-7935.00129     Document Type: Article

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