Arabic Named Entity Recognition using optimized feature sets

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 284-293

  Benajiba, Yassine ^a   Diab, Mona ^b   Rosso, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BROADCAST NEWS; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; SETS OF FEATURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649753484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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