Named entity recognition using cross-lingual resources: Arabic as an example

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1558-1567

  Darwish, Kareem ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CROSS-LINGUAL; DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURES; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; LARGE KNOWLEDGE BASIS; MICROBLOGS; NAME ENTITY RECOGNITION; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84893610020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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