The challenge of Virginia banks: An evaluation of named entity analysis in a 19th-century newspaper collection

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 31-40

  Crane, Gregory ^a   Jones, Alison ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Historical newspapers; Named entity recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METADATA; ENTITY IDENTIFICATION; HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247183701     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1141753.1141759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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