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LREC
2008
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Constructing Evaluation Corpora for Automated Clinical Named Entity Recognition
We report on the construction of a gold-standard dataset consisting of annotated clinical notes suitable for evaluating our biomedical named entity recognition system. The dataset...
Philip V. Ogren, Guergana K. Savova, Christopher G...
EMNLP
2008
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Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets
The Named Entity Recognition (NER) task has been garnering significant attention in NLP as it helps improve the performance of many natural language processing applications. In th...
Yassine Benajiba, Mona T. Diab, Paolo Rosso
LREC
2010
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Maximum Entropy Classifier Ensembling using Genetic Algorithm for NER in Bengali
In this paper, we propose classifier ensemble selection for Named Entity Recognition (NER) as a single objective optimization problem. Thereafter, we develop a method based on gen...
Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha
LREC
2010
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FIDJI: Web Question-Answering at Quaero 2009
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...
Xavier Tannier, Véronique Moriceau
LREC
2010
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Adapting a resource-light highly multilingual Named Entity Recognition system to Arabic
We present a working Arabic information extraction (IE) system that is used to analyze large volumes of news texts every day to extract the named entity (NE) types person, organiz...
Wajdi Zaghouani, Bruno Pouliquen, Mohamed Ebrahim,...
LREC
2010
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An Analysis of the Performances of the CasEN Named Entities Recognition System in the Ester2 Evaluation Campaign
In this paper, we present a detailed and critical analysis of the behaviour of the CasEN named entity recognition system during the French Ester2 evaluation campaign. In this proj...
Damien Nouvel, Jean-Yves Antoine, Nathalie Friburg...
LREC
2010
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Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection
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...
Ana Cristina Mendes, Luísa Coheur, Paula Va...
LREC
2010
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Hybrid Citation Extraction from Patents
The Quaero project organized a set of evaluations of Named Entity recognition systems in 2009, including reference extraction in patent text. The LIMSI participated in this evalua...
Olivier Galibert, Sophie Rosset, Xavier Tannier, F...
LREC
2010
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Towards a Balanced Named Entity Corpus for Dutch
This paper introduces a new named entity corpus for Dutch. State-of-the-art named entity recognition systems require a substantial annotated corpus to be trained on. Such corpora ...
Bart Desmet, Véronique Hoste
COLING
2008
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Stopping Criteria for Active Learning of Named Entity Recognition
Active learning is a proven method for reducing the cost of creating the training sets that are necessary for statistical NLP. However, there has been little work on stopping crit...
Florian Laws, Hinrich Schütze