Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of dif...
William W. Cohen, Pradeep D. Ravikumar, Stephen E....
In this paper we describe an improved version of ANERsys, an Arabic Named Entity Recognition system for open-domain texts. The first version of ANERsys was totally based on the Ma...
In task 1A of the BioCreAtIvE evaluation, systems had to be devised that recognize words and phrases forming gene or protein names in natural language sentences. We approach this ...
Many instant messenger (IM) clients let a person specify the identifying name that appears in another person’s contact list. We have noticed that many people add extra informati...