Multilingual XML-Based Named Entity Recognition for E-Retail Domains.

Abstract: We describe the multilingual Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) subpart of an e-retail product comparison systemwhich is currently under development as part of the EU-funded project CROSSMARC. The system must be rapidly extensible, bothto new languages and new domains. To achieve this aim we use XML as our common exchange format and the monolingual NERCcomponents use a combination of rule-based and machine-learning techniques. It has been challenging to process web pages...