-bruce
At 09:58 AM 11/1/99 +0000, Richard Evans wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Does anyone know of any work relating to the automatic recognition of product
>names in documents such as technical manuals? I note that such names are not
>considered "markables" in the MUC-7 NER guidance, but it seems to me that
>recognition of product names (artifacts?) has something in common with
>named-entity recognition, in that both tasks require treatment of capitalised
>words. For example:
>
> "The TopTools package is included with the Omnibook, but you must
install it
>before you can use it. On Windows NT systems, you will need administrator
>privileges to install TopTools software."
>
>Directions to previous work and suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Richard
>
>
>Richard Evans,
>Computational Linguistics Research Group,
>University of Wolverhampton,
>UK.
>