Improving NER in Arabic using a morphological tagger

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2509-2514

  Farber, Benjamin ^a   Freitag, Dayne ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b   Rambow, Owen ^b  

^a FAIR ISAAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER; MORPHOLOGICAL TAGGER; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; RELEVANT FEATURES; TRADE OFF;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85037142389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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