Bootstrapping named entity recognition with automatically generated gazetteer lists
Published 1 January 2006Open access
Zornitsa Kozareva
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This paper explores two aspects: the automatic generation of gazetteer lists from unlabeled data; and the building of a Named Entity Recognition system with labeled and unlabeling data.
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Current Named Entity Recognition systems suffer from the lack of hand-tagged data as well as degradation when moving to other domain. This paper explores two aspects: the automatic generation of gazetteer lists from unlabeled data; and the building of a Named Entity Recognition system with labeled and unlabeled data.
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