Named entities : recognition, classification and use

1. Foreword 2. Articles 3. A survey of named entity recognition and classification (by Nadeau, David) 4. Diversity in logarithmic opinion pools (by Smith, Andrew D.M.) 5. Handling conjunctions in named entities (by Mazur, Pawel) 6. Complex named entities in Spanish texts: Structures and properties (by Galicia-Haro, Sofia N.) 7. Named Entity Recognition and transliteration in Bengali (by Ekbal, Asif) 8. A note on the semantic and morphological properties of proper names in the Prolex project (by Vitas, Dusko) 9. Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (by Steinberger, Ralf) 10. Index