Using machine learning to disentangle homonyms in large text corpora

Conservation Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 716-724

  Roll, Uri ^a,b   Correia, Ricardo A ^b,c,d   Berger Tal, Oded ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

an lisis automatizado de contenido; automated content analysis; big data; datos grandes; homographs; hom grafos; miner a de textos; neural networks; redes neurales; reintroducciones; reintroductions; revisiones sistem ticas; systematic reviews; text mining

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA MINING; DECISION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MACHINE LEARNING; REINTRODUCTION; RESEARCH WORK;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; PERSONNEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 85042914283     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13044     Document Type: Article

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