Most location sharing applications display people's locations on a map. However, people use a rich variety of terms to refer to their locations, such as "home," &qu...
Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman M. ...
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...
Named entity recognition studies the problem of locating and classifying parts of free text into a set of predefined categories. Although extensive research has focused on the de...
In this paper we present a method of parsing unstructured textual records briefly describing a person and their direct relatives, which we use in the construction of a browsing t...
Several information organization, access, and filtering systems can benefit from different kind of document representations than those used in traditional Information Retrieval (I...