A 2-poisson model for probabilistic coreference of named entities for improved text retrieval

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 275-282

  Na, Seung Hoon ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Co reference resolution; Entity retrieval; Term frequency

Indexed keywords

COREFERENCE; ENTITY RETRIEVAL; NAMED ENTITIES; POISSON MODEL; REFERENCE RESOLUTION; RETRIEVAL METHODS; TERM FREQUENCY; TEXT COLLECTION; TEXT RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; SECURITY OF DATA;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 72449140078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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