CharNER: Character-level named entity recognition

COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 911-921

  Kuru, Onur ^a   Can, Ozan Arkan ^a   Yuret, Deniz ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

CHARACTER LEVEL; EXTERNAL RESOURCES; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; STATE OF THE ART; VITERBI DECODER; WORD LEVEL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85041135724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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