Gender and animacy knowledge discovery from web-scale n-grams for unsupervised person mention detection

PACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 220-229

  Ji, Heng ^a   Lin, Dekang ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Gender; Knowledge discovery; Mention detection; N grams

Indexed keywords

ANIMACY; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; FILTER NOISE; GENDER; LEXICAL PATTERNS; N-GRAMS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84863867809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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