Named entity recognition in Wikipedia

People's Web 2009 - 2009 Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources at the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 10-18

  Balasuriya, Dominic ^a   Ringland, Nicky ^a   Nothman, Joel ^a   Murphy, Tara ^a   Curran, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

'CURRENT; AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION; GOLD STANDARDS; LINK STRUCTURE; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; TRAINING DATA; WIKIPEDIA;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 85093318831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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