Occupation inference through detection and classification of biographical activities

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 76-78, Issue , 2012, Pages 39-57

  Filatova, Elena ^a   Prager, John ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biography information; Occupation classification

Indexed keywords

BIOGRAPHIES; EMPLOYMENT; TEXT PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; GENERAL POPULATION; MULTICLASS SVM; NUMBER OF CLASS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; THREE-LEVEL;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84861822765     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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