[Corpora-List] statistical named entity recognition

[Åsne Thea Fraser Haaland]

Hello list members,
My Ph.D. thesis is to be on named entity recognition for Norwegian. I want 
to use existing programming tools implementing different statistical 
methods. Most of my reading has been on maximum entropy modelling. Do any 
of you have any experience with existing tools that can be used for named 
entity recognition? Ideally I would like to be able to experiment with the 
kind of information provided to the system, so I want open source code that 
can be modified. In the case of maximum entropy modelling I would 
appreciate the possibility of trying different algorithms. It would be an 
extra bonus if I could try out the frequency redistibution algorithm 
advocated by Mikheev.
I intend to post a summary of the comments received. I appreciate your help.
Best, Åsne Haaland


Åsne Haaland, stipendiat
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