Name-ethnicity classification and ethnicity-sensitive name matching

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1141-1147

  Treeratpituk, Pucktada ^a   Giles, C Lee ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DATA-SOURCES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NAME MATCHING; NAMING SYSTEMS; NEWS ARTICLES; PATIENT RECORD; PERSONAL NAMES; SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS; SMITH-WATERMAN ALGORITHM; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRING MATCHING; WIKIPEDIA;

ALGORITHMS; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84868293536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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