Bootstrapped named entity recognition for product attribute extraction

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1557-1567

  Putthividhya, Duangmanee ^a   Hu, Junling ^a  

^a EBAY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE VALUES; GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NER SYSTEM; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES; STRING COMPARISON; SUBSTRING; TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053254065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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