Arabic-L:LING:Needs info on Arabic named entities extraction tools

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Date: 25 Jul 2006
From:W Z <wajdiuqam at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs info on Arabic named entities extraction tools

Hi Linguists et el.

I am conducting a research on Arabic Named entities
extraction tools at the University of Montreal, so I
am looking for any information related to any software
and especially the following commercial products (the
information on their websites is not enough):

-BBN identifinder
-Sakhr Siraj
-LAS now belongs to IBM
-Apptek namefinder
-Net Owl SRA
-ClearForest
-BasisTech name matcher

Basically I need to know what kind of methods are used
(Manual , automatic (HMM, SVM...), hybdrid...) and if
there is any papers available related to these
products.

Also, what are the advantage and drawbacks of the
methods used.

Thank you for the help

Wajdi Zaghouani

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