NER systems that suit user's preferences: Adjusting the recall-precision trade-off for entity extraction

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 93-96

  Minkov, Einat ^a   Wang, Richard C ^a   Tomasic, Anthony ^b   Cohen, William W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ENTITY EXTRACTIONS; NER SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PERSONAL NAMES; SEQUENTIAL CLASSIFIER; SIMPLE++; TRADE OFF; USER'S PREFERENCES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84922282641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. M. Collins. 2002. Discriminative training methods for hidden Markov models: Theory and experiments with perceptron algorithms. In EMNLP.
2. A. Culotta and A. McCallum. 2004. Confidence estimation for information extraction. In HLT-NAACL.
3. B. Klimt and Y. Yang. 2004. Introducing the Enron corpus. In CEAS.
4. J. Lafferty, A. McCallum, and F. Pereira. 2001. Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data. In ICML.
5. A. Mccallum and W. Lee. 2003. early results for named entity recognition with conditional random fields, feature induction and web-enhanced lexicons. In CONLL.
6. E. Minkov, R. C. Wang, and W. W. Cohen. 2005. Extracting personal names from emails: Applying named entity recognition to informal text. In HLT-EMNLP.
7. D. Pinto, A. Mccallum, X. Wei, and W. B. Croft. 2003. table extraction using conditional random fields. In ACM SIGIR.
8. F. Sha and F. Pereira. 2003. Shallow parsing with conditional random fields. In HLT-NAACL.