An automatically built Named Entity lexicon for Arabic

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3614-3621

  Attia, Mohammed ^a   Toral, Antonio ^a   Tounsi, Lamia ^a   Monachini, Monica ^b   Van Genabith, Josef ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEARCH ENGINES;

ARABIC WORDNET; GOLD STANDARDS; ISO STANDARDS; KEYWORD SEARCH; LEXICAL RESOURCES; NAMED ENTITIES; POST PROCESSING; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84981154497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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