Automatic rule learning exploiting morphological features for named entity recognition in Turkish

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-151

  Tatar, Serhan ^a   Cicekli, Ilyas ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

automatic rule learning; morphological features; named entity recognition; Turkish

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; DATA SETS; F-SCORE; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; RULE LEARNING; TURKISH; TURKISH TEXTS; TURKISHS;

EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 79954467274     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551511398573     Document Type: Article

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