Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition with Automatically Generated Gazetteer Lists

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Zornitsa Kozareva
• Keywords: Current Named Entity, EACL 2006, Named Entity Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Unlabeled Data