Building a multilingual lexical resource for named entity disambiguation, translation and transliteration

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3230-3237

  Wentland, Wolodja ^a   Knopp, Johannes ^a   Silberer, Carina ^a   Hartung, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION; LEXICAL RESOURCES; NAMED ENTITY DISAMBIGUATIONS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION METHOD;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85003775924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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