Language model (LM) adaptation is often achieved by combining a generic LM with a topic-specific model that is more relevant to the target document. Unlike previous work on unsup...
Named Entity Recognition is a relatively well-understood NLP task, with many publicly available training resources and software for English. Other languages tend to be underserved...
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...
In this paper, we present HeiNER, the multilingual Heidelberg Named Entity Resource. HeiNER contains 1,547,586 disambiguated English Named Entities together with translations and ...
Wolodja Wentland, Johannes Knopp, Carina Silberer,...
This paper describes a new scoring algorithm that supports comparison of linguistically annotated data from noisy sources. The new algorithm generalizes the Message Understanding ...
John D. Burger, David D. Palmer, Lynette Hirschman