Language Independent Named Entity Recognition Combining Morphological and Contextual Evidence.
Published 1 January 1999
Silviu Cucerzan, David Yarowsky
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Identifying and classifying personal, geographic, institutional or other names in a text is an important task for numerous applications. This paper describes and evaluates a language-independent bootstrapping algorithm based on iterative learning and re-estimation of contextual and morphological patterns captured in hierarchicaily smoothed trie models. The algorithm learns from unannotated text and achieves competitive performance when trained on a very short labelled name list with no other required language-specific information, tokenizers or tools.
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