Boosting for Chinese named entity recognition

COLING/ACL 2006 - 5th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 150-153

  Yu, Xiaofeng ^a   Carpuat, Marine ^a   Wu, Dekai ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER-BASED MODELS; CHINESE INPUT; CHINESE LANGUAGE PROCESSING; CHINESE NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; INPUT STRING; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; PERFORMANCE; SETS OF FEATURES; SIMPLE++;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 56149108347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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