Extracting person names from Arabic newspapers

Elsebai, A; Meziane, F

Abstract

Named Entity recognition is very new in the Arabic Language although it has reached the maturity stage for some other languages such as English and French. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of a person name named entity recognition system for the Arabic Language. We use heuristics based on a set of keywords rather than complex grammars, statistical and machine learning techniques. However, the results obtained are of the same standards or better in some cases as those systems that are using more sophisticated approaches.

Citation

Elsebai, A., & Meziane, F. (2008, April). Extracting person names from Arabic newspapers. Presented at 7th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai, UAE

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 7th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology
• Conference Location: Dubai, UAE
• Start Date: Apr 25, 2008
• End Date: Apr 27, 2008
• Online Publication Date: Jun 16, 2011
• Publication Date: Jun 16, 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 15, 2017
• Book Title: 2011 International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2011.5893875
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2011.5893875
• Related Public URLs: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5784215
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference