Robust multilingual Named Entity Recognition with shallow semi-supervised features

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 238, Issue , 2016, Pages 63-82

  Agerri, Rodrigo ^a   Rigau, German ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clustering; Information Extraction; Named Entity Recognition; Natural Language Processing; Semi supervised learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING FEATURE; LOCAL INFORMATION; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SEMI- SUPERVISED LEARNING; STATE OF THE ART;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84975806521     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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