Design challenges and misconceptions in named entity recognition

CoNLL 2009 - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 147-155

  Ratinov, Lev ^a   Roth, Dan ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DESIGN CHALLENGES; F1 SCORES; FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NER SYSTEM; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862300668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1596374.1596399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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