Name searching and information retrieval

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 134-140

  Thompson, Paul ^a   Dozier, Christopher C ^a  

^a West Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LEGAL DOCUMENTS; NAME MATCHING; NAME RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL NAMES; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 85120033880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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