LINGUIST List 17.310
Mon Jan 30 2006
Diss: Computational Ling: Mallchok: 'Automatic Recog...'
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1. Friederike
Mallchok,
Automatic Recognition of Organization Names in English Business News
Message 1: Automatic Recognition of Organization Names in English Business News
Date: 30-Jan-2006
From: Friederike Mallchok <friederikemallchok.com>
Subject: Automatic Recognition of Organization Names in English Business News
Institution: University of Munich
Program: Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004
Author: Friederike Yvonne Helene Mallchok
Dissertation Title: Automatic Recognition of Organization Names in English Business News
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Dissertation Director:
Franz Guenthner
Richard Janney
Klaus U Schulz
Dissertation Abstract:
The goal of the research project was to prove that the magnitude of theincrease in recall and precision of named entity recognition justifies aseparate and language specific treatment of each kind of entity in everydomain. The hypotheses that by using Local Grammars, the NER task can besolved with the additional side benefit of gaining further informationabout the named entity from its context, was to either be corroborated ordisproved. The domain and language that was focused on are online businessnews written in English.
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