A scalable machine-learning approach for semi-structured named entity recognition

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 461-470

  Irmak, Utku ^a   Kraft, Reiner ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b YAHOO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

boostrapping algorithm; ner; weakly supervised learning

Indexed keywords

BOOSTRAPPING ALGORITHM; FREE TEXTS; LABELED TRAINING DATA; MACHINE-LEARNING; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NER; PHONE NUMBER; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; RUNTIMES; SEMI-STRUCTURED; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; THREE-LEVEL; TURKISHS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LOCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TELEPHONE SETS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77954644738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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