%0 Conference Paper %1 Surdeanu:2005 %A Surdeanu, Mihai %A Turmo, Jordi %A Comelles, Eli %B Proceedings Interspeech-05 %C Lisbon %D 2005 %K named_entities speech %T Named Entity Recognition from Spontaneous Open-Domain Speech %U http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~comelles/ %X This paper presents an analysis of named entity recognition and classification in spontaneous speech transcripts. We annotated a significant fraction of the Switchboard corpus with six named entity classes and investigated a battery of machine learning models that include lexical, syntactic, and semantic attributes. The best recognition and classification model obtains promising results, approaching within 5% a system evaluated on clean textual data.

@inproceedings{Surdeanu:2005, abstract = {This paper presents an analysis of named entity recognition and classification in spontaneous speech transcripts. We annotated a significant fraction of the Switchboard corpus with six named entity classes and investigated a battery of machine learning models that include lexical, syntactic, and semantic attributes. The best recognition and classification model obtains promising results, approaching within 5% a system evaluated on clean textual data.}, added-at = {2007-12-14T02:47:08.000+0100}, address = {Lisbon}, author = {Surdeanu, Mihai and Turmo, Jordi and Comelles, Eli}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/22b0790ca9fa1c810363f5df441fc1254/diego_ma}, booktitle = {Proceedings Interspeech-05}, interhash = {5c1e7cca18b3a3a40a8456f8bbf44519}, intrahash = {2b0790ca9fa1c810363f5df441fc1254}, keywords = {named_entities speech}, timestamp = {2007-12-14T02:47:08.000+0100}, title = {Named Entity Recognition from Spontaneous Open-Domain Speech}, url = {http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~comelles/}, year = 2005 }