Named entity recognition for Ukrainian: a resource-light approach

  • Authors:
  • Sophia Katrenko;Pieter Adriaans

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ACL '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing: Information Extraction and Enabling Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Named entity recognition (NER) is a subtask of information extraction (IE) which can be used further on for different purposes. In this paper, we discuss named entity recognition for Ukrainian language, which is a Slavonic language with a rich morphology. The approach we follow uses a restricted number of features. We show that it is feasible to boost performance by considering several heuristics and patterns acquired from the Web data.