Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition
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Kentaro Torisawa
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@MISC{Torisawa_exploitingwikipedia,
author = {Kentaro Torisawa},
title = {Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
We explore the use of Wikipedia as external knowledge to improve named entity recognition (NER). Our method retrieves the corresponding Wikipedia entry for each candidate word sequence and extracts a category label from the first sentence of the entry, which can be thought of as a definition
