Li Yang has just returned from the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007) in Melbourne, where he presented a paper titled Named Entity Recognition Using Syntactic/Semantic Information, co-authored with Steven Abney.

In their paper, Yang and Abney show that combining deep syntactic knowledge with machine learning methods significantly improves the performance on the task of named entity recognition.

Deep processing is the major theme of PACLING 2007.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 5:18 pm and is filed under Computational, Conferences, Presentations.