[Corpora-List] IE practice: Searching for names in emails

[Andrew.Lampert at csiro.au]

Hi Yorick,

There's certainly work in resolving and disambiguating people names in email from pre-2007. 

Examples that I'm aware of include:

* Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen, Extracting Personal Names from Emails: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text in HLT/EMNLP 2005
* Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen, Andrew Y. Ng, Contextual Search and Name Disambiguation in Email using Graphs in SIGIR 2006 (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~einat/sigir-06.pdf)
* C. P. Diehl, L. Getoor, G. Namata, "Name Reference Resolution in Organizational Email Archives," 2006 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

I'd be interested to hear of others.

Thanks,
Andrew

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Subject: [Corpora-List] IE practice: Searching for names in emails

Does anyone recall research  on the detection/annotation of proper
names in emails? This has been done in Information Extraction on prose
texts since the early 1990s but I see someone has patented any search
for (proper) names in email text, which seems absurd in 2007. It seems
to me a pubic duty to contest this kind of patenting of the obvious
(and the consequent  restraints on research) and Id be glad to be
reminded of clear cases of pre-2007 prior art on this.
Yorick Wilks]


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