Support for users of CCG software closed 7-27-20

[Lev-Arie Ratinov <arie.ratinov AT gmail.com>]

Hi Choi.

Indeed, I've used partial string matching.
For example, if the article has a category containing the word
"mountains", it would be added to the locations gazetteer. Same for
"births"

I hope it helps.


On 7/31/11, DongHyun Choi 
<cdh4696 AT gmail.com>
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, thank you for providing the nice NER toolkit.
>
> I am trying to use the LBJNER to my research, and trying to upgrade the
> Wikipedia gazetteers, since Wikipedia itself is updated during the time.
>
> The problem was, I was not able to figure out the details of how you get
> those Wikipedia gazetteers. The paper describes that category tags are used
> to extract the titles, but how? For example, for the category tag "people"
> only 4 articles have category tag "people"; tags "births" and "deaths" even
> do not exist.
>
> My question is: did you use partial string matching to the tags? Or is there
> any other thing I don't know, or not yet being published? Could you please
> explain about the method used?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
> DongHyun Choi
>


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