A bootstrapping approach to named entity classification using successive learners

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2003-July, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Niu, Cheng ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Ding, Jihong ^a   Srihari, Rohini K ^a  

^a Cymfony Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DECISION LISTS; ENTITY-TYPES; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; HIGH-PRECISION; LEARN+; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE; SYSTEMS APPROACH; TRAINING CORPUS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85149149796     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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