A real time Named Entity Recognition system for Arabic text mining

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 543-563

  Al Jumaily, Harith ^a   Martínez, Paloma ^a   Martínez Fernández, José L ^b   Van der Goot, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DAEDALUS Data Decisions and Language SA   (Spain)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arabic language; Event detection; Morphological analysis; Named Entity Recognition; Root extraction; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870452979     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-011-9146-z     Document Type: Article

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