Identifying language origin of named entity with multiple information sources

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1077-1086

  You, Jia Li ^a   Chen, Yi Ning ^a   Chu, Min ^a   Soong, Frank K ^a   Wang, Jin Lin ^a  

^a IEEE

Author keywords

Language identification; Named entity; Web search

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; INFORMATION SOURCES; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; N-GRAMS; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RELATIVE ERRORS; WEB SEARCH; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEBSITES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 66149091516     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2001110     Document Type: Article

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