Date: 16-Aug-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Named Entities: Sekine, Ranchhod (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Named Entities
Subtitle: Recognition, classification and use
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 19
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Satoshi Sekine
Editor: Elisabete Ranchhod
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289223 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289223 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027222497 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027222497 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Abstract:
'Named Entities' provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of NERC research. Nadeau & Sekine provide an extensive survey of past NERC technologies, which should be a very useful resource for new researchers in this field. Smith & Osborne describe a machine learning model which tries to solve the over-fitting problem. Mazur & Dale tackle a common problem of NE and conjunction; as conjunctions are often a part of NEs or appear close to NEs, this is an important practical problem. A further three papers describe analyses and implementations of NERC for different languages: Spanish (Galicia-Haro & Gelbukh), Bengali (Ekbal, Naskar &; Bandyopadhyay), and Serbian (Vitas, Krstev & Maurel). Finally, Steinberger & Pouliquen report on a real WEB application where multilingual NERC technology is used to identify occurrences of people, locations and organizations in newspapers in different languages.
The contributions to this volume were previously published as 'Lingvisticae Investigationes' 30:1 (2007).
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
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