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Publication
ANLP 1997
Conference paper
Disambiguation of proper names in text
Abstract
Identifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a difficult task because of the many-to-many mapping between names and their referents. We analyze the types of ambiguity - structural and semantic - that make the discovery of proper names difficult in text, and describe the heuristics used to disambiguate names in Nominator, a fully-implemented module for proper name recognition developed at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.