Improving the performance of a NER system by post-processing, context patterns and voting

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5459 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 45-56

  Ekbal, Asif ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Sivaji ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Conditional Random Field; Named Entity Recognition; Support Vector Machine; Weighted Voting

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONTEXT PATTERNS; F-SCORE; LEXICAL CONTEXTS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NER SYSTEM; POST PROCESSING; SPLITTING TECHNIQUES; WEIGHTED VOTING;

CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 70350635838     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00831-3_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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