Named entity normalization in user generated content

Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, AND'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-30

  Jijkoun, Valentin ^a   Khalid, Mahboob Alam ^a   Marx, Maarten ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Named entities; User generated content; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; BASE-LINES; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DATA SETS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; ENTITY RECOGNITIONS; ENTITY RETRIEVALS; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITIONS; NEWS ARTICLES; QUESTION ANSWERING; REAL WORLDS; RECORD LINKAGES; STRUCTURED DATABASES; TREND DETECTIONS; USER GENERATED CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; ERRORS; LINGUISTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57449084959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390749.1390755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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