Initial explorations on using CRFs for turkish named entity recognition

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2459-2474

  Şseker, Gökhan Akin ^a   Eryǐgit, Güļsen ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conditional random fields; ENAMEX; Named entity recognition; Turkish

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS(CRFS); ENAMEX; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INITIAL EXPLORATION; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; TURKISHS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84876812658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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