Named entity recognition and transliteration in Bengali

Lingvisticae Investigationes

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-114

  Ekbal, Asif ^a   Naskar, Sudip Kumar ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Sivaji ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bengali; HMM based approach; Modified Joint Source Channel Model; Named entity recognition; Named entity transliteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249140846     PISSN: 03784169     EISSN: 15699927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/li.30.1.07ekb     Document Type: Article

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