Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a relevant role in several Natural Language Processing tasks. Question-Answering (QA) is an example of such, since answers are frequently name...
Abstract. We present a loosely-supervised method for context-free identification of transliterated foreign names and borrowed words in Hebrew text. The method is purely statistical...
Name tagging is a critical early stage in many natural language processing pipelines. In this paper we analyze the types of errors produced by a tagger, distinguishing name classi...
In this paper, a sample set of 510 simple searches from the TEL action log 2009 is analyzed for query content and query language. More than half of the queries are for named entiti...
Existing Language Identification (LID) approaches do reach 100% precision, in most common situations, when dealing with documents written in just one language, and when those docu...