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Language Independent NER using a Unified Model of Internal and Contextual Evidence

This paper investigates the use of a language independent model for named entity recognition based on iterative learning in a co-training fashion, using word-internal and contextual information as independent evidence sources. Its bootstrapping process begins with only seed entities and seed contexts extracted from the provided annotated corpus. F-measure exceeds 77 in Spanish and 72 in Dutch.


Silviu Cucerzan and David Yarowsky, Language Independent NER using a Unified Model of Internal and Contextual Evidence. In: Dan Roth and Antal van den Bosch (eds.), Proceedings of CoNLL-2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002, pp. 171-174. [ps] [ps.gz] [pdf] [bibtex]
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