Handling conjunctions in named entities

Lingvisticae Investigationes

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-68

  Mazur, Pawel ^a,b   Dale, Robert ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conjunctions; Machine learning; Named entity recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249140519     PISSN: 03784169     EISSN: 15699927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/li.30.1.05maz     Document Type: Article

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