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Entity-based applications, such as expert search or online social networks where users search for persons, require high-quality datasets of named entity references. Obtaining such high-quality datasets can be achieved by automatically extracting ...

The authors compared two methods for annotating a corpus for the named entity (NE) recognition task using non-expert annotators: (i) revising the results of an existing NE recognizer and (ii) manually annotating the NEs completely. The annotation time, ...

Ambiguous personal names are common on the Web, which pose a challenge for many different tasks. The traditional disambiguation employs the clustering methods. However, without reference entity tables, the clustering method can only identify whether two ...