Rapid customization of an information extraction system for a surprise language

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-300

  Maynard, Diana ^a   Tablan, Valentin ^a   Bontcheva, Kalina ^a   Cunningham, Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information Extraction; Language agility; Named entity recognition

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LANGUAGE AGILITY; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; SURPRISE LANGUAGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745147887     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15300226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/979872.979880     Document Type: Article

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