Exploring the usefulness of cross-lingual information fusion for refining real-time news event extraction: A preliminary study

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 210-217

  Piskorski, Jakub ^a   Belayeva, Jenya ^b   Atkinson, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION FUSION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REFINING;

CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION; EVENT DESCRIPTION; EVENT EXTRACTION; MONOLINGUAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME; REAL-WORLD; RECALL AND PRECISION; TEST CORPUS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866863540     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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