Nymble: a High-Performance Learning Name-finder

This paper presents a statistical, learned approach to finding names and other nonrecursive entities in text (as per the MUC-6 definition of the NE task), using a variant of the standard hidden Markov model. We present our justification for the problem and our approach, a detailed discussion of the model itself and finally the successful results of this new approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Daniel M. Bikel, Scott Miller, Richard M. Schwartz, Ralph M. Weischedel
• Keywords: ANLP 1997, Hidden Markov Model, MUC-6 Definition, Nonrecursive Entities