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07-27-2006, 04:38 AM
<p align="left">Date: 25 Jul 2006 <br /><font size="2">From:W Z <wajdiuqam@yahoo.<wbr />com></font> <br /><font size="2">Subject:Needs info on Arabic named entities extraction tools</font> </p><div align="left"><font size="2">Hi Linguists et el.</font> </div><div align="left"><font size="2">I am conducting a research on Arabic Named entities</font> <br /><font size="2">extraction tools at the University of Montreal, so I</font> <br /><font size="2">am looking for any information related to any software</font> <br /><font size="2">and especially the following commercial products (the</font> <br /><font size="2">information on their websites is not enough):</font> </div><div align="left"><font size="2">-BBN identifinder</font> <br /><font size="2">-Sakhr Siraj</font> <br /><font size="2">-LAS now belongs to IBM</font> <br /><font size="2">-Apptek namefinder</font> <br /><font size="2">-Net Owl SRA</font> <br /><font size="2">-ClearForest</font> <br /><font size="2">-BasisTech name matcher</font> </div><div align="left"><font size="2">Basically I need to know what kind of methods are used</font> <br /><font size="2">(Manual , automatic (HMM, SVM...), hybdrid...) and if</font> <br /><font size="2">there is any papers available related to these</font> <br /><font size="2">products.</font> </div><div align="left"><font size="2">Also, what are the advantage and drawbacks of the</font> <br /><font size="2">methods used.</font> </div><div align="left"><font size="2">Thank you for the help</font> </div><div align="left"><font size="2">Wajdi Zaghouani</font></div>