Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2001 Conference, page 257-274. Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, (2001)Abstract
Current research in Information Extraction tends to be focused on application-specific systems tailored to a particular domain. The Muse system is a multi-purpose Named Entity recognition system which aims to reduce the need for costly and time-consuming adaptation of systems to new applications, with its capability for processing texts from widely differing domains and genres. Although the system is still under development, preliminary results are encouraging, showing little degradation when processing texts of lower quality or of unusual types. The system currently averages 93% precision and 95% recall across a variety of text types.
