Automatic term list generation for entity tagging

Ted Sandler, Andrew I. Schein, Lyle H. Ungar

Abstract: Many entity taggers and information extraction systems make use of lists of terms of entities such as people, places, genes or chemicals. These lists have traditionally been constructed manually. We show that distributional clustering methods which group words based on the contexts that they appear in, including neighboring words and syntactic relations extracted using a shallow parser, can be used to aid in the construction of term lists.