Expanding a multilingual media monitoring and information extraction tool to a new language: Swahili

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-330

  Steinberger, Ralf ^a   Ombuya, Sylvia ^a   Kabadjov, Mijail ^a   Pouliquen, Bruno ^a   Della Rocca, Leo ^a   Belyaeva, Jenya ^a   de Paola, Monica ^a   Ignat, Camelia ^a   van der Goot, Erik ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Date recognition; Geo tagging; Information extraction; Media monitoring; Multilinguality; Named entity recognition and classification; News analysis; Quotation recognition; Subject domain classification; Swahili

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961210779     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-011-9155-y     Document Type: Article

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