Named Entities -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- A survey of named entity recognition and classification -- Introduction -- 1. Observations: 1991 to 2006 -- 1.1 Language factor -- 1.2 Textual genre or domain factor -- 1.3 Entity type factor -- 1.4 What's next? -- 2. Learning methods -- 2.1 Supervised learning -- 2.2 Semi-supervised learning -- 2.3 Unsupervised learning -- 3. Feature space for NERC -- 3.1 Word-level features -- 3.2 List lookup features -- 3.3 Document and corpus features -- 4. Evaluation of NERC -- 4.1 MUC evaluations -- 4.2 Exact-match evaluations -- 4.3 ACE evaluation -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- Summary -- Diversity in logarithmic opinion pools -- Introduction -- 1. Logarithmic Opinion Pools -- 1.1 Definition -- 1.2 The Ambiguity Decomposition -- 1.3 LOPs for CRFs -- 2. Sources of diversity -- 2.1 Offline Diversity -- 2.2 Online Diversity -- 3. Experiments -- 3.1 Dataset -- 3.2 Offline diversity -- 3.3 Online Diversity -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Summary -- Handling conjunctions in named entities -- Introduction -- 1. Problem Description -- 2. Previous Work -- 2.1 Rau -- 2.2 Coates-Stephens -- 2.3 McDonald -- 2.4 Mikheev et al. -- 2.5 Downey et al -- 3. Our Approach -- 4. Experimental setup -- 4.1 Corpus and Data Preparation -- 4.2 The Tag Set -- 4.3 Encoding -- 4.4 Baseline and Algorithms -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Evaluation Scheme -- 5.2 Classification Results -- 6. Analysis -- 6.1 Conjunction Category Indicators -- 6.2 Error Analysis -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Summary -- Complex named entities in Spanish texts -- Introduction -- 1. Corpus characteristics -- 2. Named entities formed by a word or series of words initialized with a capital letter -- 3. Named entities including prepositions.

3.1 Named entities including preposition "de" -- 3.2 Named entities including preposition "a" -- 3.3 Named entities including preposition "contra" -- 3.4 Named entities including preposition "sobre" -- 4.1 Syntactic ambiguity -- 4.2 Embedded named entities -- 4. Named entities formed with conjunction -- 5. Discourse structures -- 6. Discussion -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Summary -- Named Entity Recognition and transliteration in Bengali -- 0. Introduction -- 0.1 Named Entity Recognition -- 0.2 Named Entity Transliteration -- 1. Named Entity Recognition in Bengali -- 1.1 Models of Named Entity Recognition -- 2. Named Entity Transliteration -- 2.1 Transliteration Models -- 2.2 Bengali to English Machine Transliteration -- 3. Experimental Results of the NER System -- 3.1 Evaluation Method of the NER System -- 3.2 Results of the NER System -- 4. Experimental Results of the Transliteration System -- 4.1 Evaluation Method of the Transliteration System -- 4.2 Results of the Transliteration Models -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Summary -- A note on the semantic and morphological properties of proper names in the Prolex project -- Introduction -- 2. The morphology of proper names -- 2.1 Inflection -- 2.2 Regular derivation -- 2.3 Surnames -- 2.4 The morphology of multi-word proper names -- 3. Lexical resources for proper names -- 3.1 E-dictionary of proper names and text analysis -- 3.2 The ontology of proper names -- 4. Processing with the Prolex multilingual ontology -- 4.1 The morphological expansion of entities - the example of the prolexeme Naples -- 4.2 Semantical expansion of entities - the example: bivša Jugoslavija -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Summary -- Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The role of NERC in NewsExplorer -- 3. Algorithms for Named Entity Recognition used in NewsExplorer.

3.1 Named Entity Recognition for person and organisation names -- 3.2 Extraction of geographical location names -- 3.3 Dealing with inflection -- 4. Name variant matching and merging -- 4.1 Related work -- 4.2 Combining variant normalisation and fuzzy matching for name variant detection -- 5. Social network detection for names extracted from the news -- 5.1 Calculation of the social network -- 6. Ongoing and future work -- 7. Discussion and Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Summary -- Index -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.