Disambiguation of proper names in text

5th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, ANLP 1997 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 202-208

  Wacholder, Nina ^a   Ravin, Yael ^b   Choi, Misook ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MANY-TO-MANY MAPPINGS; PROPER NAME RECOGNITION; RESEARCH CENTER;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84946400852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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