Extracting personal names from email: applying named entity recognition to informal text

  • Authors:
  • Einat Minkov;Richard C. Wang;William W. Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

There has been little prior work on Named Entity Recognition for "informal" documents like email. We present two methods for improving performance of person name recognizers for email: email-specific structural features and a recall-enhancing method which exploits name repetition across multiple documents.