NE recognition without training data on a language you don't speak

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Maynard, Diana ^a   Tablan, Valentin ^a   Cunningham, Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F MEASURE; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84945301779     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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