The Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework

Thierry Poibeau (1)

1 LIPN - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord

This paper presents a multilingual system designed to recognize named entities in a wide variety of languages (currently more than 12 languages are concerned). The system includes original strategies to deal with a wide variety of encoding character sets, analysis strategies and algorithms to process these languages.

Mots clés: Named entity recognition; multilingualism

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Informatique; Linguistique; Linguistique; Traitement du texte et du document

Thierry Poibeau. The Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Framework. European Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2003), 2003, Budapest, Hungary. pp.155-158. ⟨hal-00085180⟩