An unsupervised approach to biography production using Wikipedia

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 807-815

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Filatova, Elena ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b InforSense LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SUBJECTS; MULTI-DOCUMENT; REGRESSION MODEL; SENTENCE ORDERING; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEBSITES;

BIOGRAPHIES;

EID: 84859921187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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