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Current research on information extraction from spoken documents is mainly focused on the recognition of named entities, such as names of organizations, locations and persons, within transcripts automatically generated by a speech recognizer. In this work we present research carried out at ITC-irst on named entity recognition in Italian broadcast news. In particular, an original statistical named entity tagger is described which can be trained with relatively little language resources: a seed list of named entities and a large untagged text corpus. Moreover, the paper discusses and presents named entity recognition experiments with case sensitive automatic transcripts, generated by the ITC-irst speech recognizer, and by training the named entity model with seed lists of different size.
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Sandrini, V., Federico, M. (2003). Spoken Information Extraction from Italian Broadcast News. In: Sebastiani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2633. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36618-0_11
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