A hybrid approach for robust multilingual toponym extraction and disambiguation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7912 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-15

  Habib, Mena B ^a   Van Keulen, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEPENDENT PROCESS; EXTRACTION ACCURACY; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; INFORMATIVE NESS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; THRESHOLD SETTING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 84888232921     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38634-3_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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