• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1639-1658
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• 2019

Named entity recognition (NER) is an important technique for improving the performance of data mining and big data analytics. In previous studies, NER systems have been employed to identify named-entities using statistical methods based on prior information or linguistic features; however, such methods are limited in that they are unable to recognize unregistered or unlearned objects. In this paper, a method is proposed to extract objects, such as technologies, theories, or person names, by analyzing the collocation relationship between certain words that simultaneously appear around specific words in the abstracts of academic journals. The method is executed as follows. First, the data is preprocessed using data cleaning and sentence detection to separate the text into single sentences. Then, part-of-speech (POS) tagging is applied to the individual sentences. After this, the appearance and collocation information of the other POS tags is analyzed, excluding the entity candidates, such as nouns. Finally, an entity recognition model is created based on analyzing and classifying the information in the sentences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.349-357
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• 2007

Named entities (NEs) are important in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, and discovering NE-related relations in texts may be beneficial for these applications. This paper proposes a method to extract the ISA relation between a "named entity" and its category, and an IS-RELATED-TO relation between the category and its related object. Based on the pattern extraction algorithm "Person Category Extraction" (PCE), we extend it for solving our problem. Our experiments on Wall Street Journal (WSJ) corpus show promising results. We also demonstrate a possible application of these relations by utilizing them for semantic search.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.89-104
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• 2011

Large-scaled information extraction plays an important role in advanced information retrieval as well as question answering and summarization. Information extraction can be defined as a process of converting unstructured documents into formalized, tabular information, which consists of named-entity recognition, terminology extraction, coreference resolution and relation extraction. Since all the elementary technologies have been studied independently so far, it is not trivial to integrate all the necessary processes of information extraction due to the diversity of their input/output formation approaches and operating environments. As a result, it is difficult to handle scientific documents to extract both named-entities and technical terms at once. In order to extract these entities automatically from scientific documents at once, we developed a framework for scientific core entity extraction which embraces all the pivotal language processors, named-entity recognizer and terminology extractor.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.10B no.2
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• pp.229-236
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• 2003

Named entity recognition is the process indispensable to question answering and information extraction systems. This paper presents an HMM based named entity (m) recognition method using the construction principles of compound words. In Korean, many named entities can be decomposed into more than one word. Moreover, there are contextual relationships among nouns in an NE, and among an NE and its surrounding words. In this paper, we classify words into a word as an NE in itself, a word in an NE, and/or a word adjacent to an n, and train an HMM based on NE-related word types and parts of speech. Proposed named entity recognition (NER) system uses trigram model of HMM for considering variable length of NEs. However, the trigram model of HMM has a serious data sparseness problem. In order to solve the problem, we use multi-level back-offs. Experimental results show that our NER system can achieve an F-measure of 87.6% in the economic articles.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.227-248
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• 2017

This paper introduces an integrated model for systematically constructing a linguistic resource database that can be used by machine learning-based biomedical information extraction systems. The proposed method suggests an orderly process of collecting and constructing dictionaries and training sets for both named-entity recognition and relation extraction. Multiple heterogeneous structures for the resources which are collected from diverse sources are analyzed to derive essential items and fields for constructing the integrated database. All the collected resources are converted and refined to build an integrated linguistic resource storage. In this paper, we constructed entity dictionaries of gene, protein, disease and drug, which are considered core linguistic elements or core named entities in the biomedical domains and conducted verification tests to measure their acceptability.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1111-1114
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• 2002

최근 정보추출에 대한 중요성이 점차 증가하면서 정보추출에서 필요로 하는 Named Entity와 Coreference, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval의 소개와 한국어에 대해 적용시키기 위한 정의와 방법을 제시한다. 또한, 대량의 문서에 대한 태깅을 효율적으로 수행할 수 있도록 Named Entity와 Coreference 태깅을 쉽게 할 수 있는 NE-CO 태깅 도구를 개발하였다. 이 태깅 도구를 이용하여 시험적으로 경제, 공연, 여행 분야의 300문서에 대한 말뭉치를 구축하였으며, 이 말뭉치는 한국어 정보추출 시스템을 개발하는데 기초 자료로서 활용될 예정이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.560-574
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method of Machine Learning (ML) algorithm and a rule-based algorithm to implement a lightweight Named Entity (NE) extraction system for Korean SMS text. NE extraction from Korean SMS text is a challenging theme due to the resource limitation on a mobile phone, corruptions in input text, need for extension to include personal information stored in a mobile phone, and sparsity of training data. The proposed hybrid method retaining the advantages of statistical ML and rule-based algorithms provides fully-automated procedures for the combination of ML approaches and their correction rules using a threshold-based soft decision function. The proposed method is applied to Korean SMS texts to extract person's names as well as location names which are key information in personal appointment management system. Our proposed system achieved 80.53% in F-measure in this domain, superior to those of the conventional ML approaches.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.1-22
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• 2009

Large-scaled information extraction plays an important role in advanced information retrieval as well as question answering and summarization. Information extraction can be defined as a process of converting unstructured documents into formalized, tabular information, which consists of named-entity recognition, terminology extraction, coreference resolution and relation extraction. Since all the elementary technologies have been studied independently so far, it is not trivial to integrate all the necessary processes of information extraction due to the diversity of their input/output formation approaches and operating environments. As a result, it is difficult to handle scientific documents to extract both named-entities and technical terms at once. In this study, we define scientific as a set of 10 types of named entities and technical terminologies in a biomedical domain. in order to automatically extract these entities from scientific documents at once, we develop a framework for scientific core entity extraction which embraces all the pivotal language processors, named-entity recognizer, co-reference resolver and terminology extractor. Each module of the integrated system has been evaluated with various corpus as well as KEEC 2009. The system will be utilized for various information service areas such as information retrieval, question-answering(Q&A), document indexing, dictionary construction, and so on.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.655-667
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• 2010

The named entity recognition task is one of the most important subtasks in Information Extraction. In this paper, we describe a Korean named entity recognition using structural Support Vector Machines (structural SVMs) and modified Pegasos algorithm. Using the proposed approach, we could achieve an 85.43% F1 and an 86.79% F1 for 15 named entity types on TV domain and sports domain, respectively. Moreover, we reduced the training time to 4% without loss of performance compared to Conditional Random Fields (CRFs).

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.443-458
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• 2008

Since Web pages contain a lot of information today, the Web becomes an important resource to extract some information. In this paper, we proposes a set expansion system which can automatically extract named entities from the Web. Overall, the proposed method consists of three steps. First of all, Web pages, which may include many named entities of a domain, are collected by using several seed words of the domain. Then some pattern rules are extracted by using seed words and the collected Web pages, and the named entity candidates are selected through applying the extracted pattern rules into Web pages. To distinguish real named entities, we develop the new mutual importance measurement method which estimates the importance of named entity candidates. We conducted experiments for 3 domains for Korean and for 8 domains for English. As a result, the proposed method obtained 78.72% MAP in Korean and 96.48% MAP in English. In particular, the performances of English domains are better than the results of the Google set.