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Automatic Extraction of Corporate Names from Web Texts


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Names of corporate bodies are among the important entities that are of value in identifying and retrieving a web resource. This paper describes a program developed and implemented to identify and extract corporate names from web texts. The program uses trigger words to identify corporate names. The paper also reports an expenment that was carried out to test the feasibility and utifity of the method. The results are analyzed and some problems for further research are identified.
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K. Sivasamy
Department of Information Science, University of Madras, Chennai 600 005, India
K. S. Raghavan
Department of Information Science, University of Madras, Chennai 600 005, India

Abstract


Names of corporate bodies are among the important entities that are of value in identifying and retrieving a web resource. This paper describes a program developed and implemented to identify and extract corporate names from web texts. The program uses trigger words to identify corporate names. The paper also reports an expenment that was carried out to test the feasibility and utifity of the method. The results are analyzed and some problems for further research are identified.

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