- A. Waibel, Fei Huang. 2006. Multilingual named entity extraction and translation from text and speech. Abstract: Named entities (NE), the noun or noun phrases referring to persons, locations and organizations, are among the most information-bearing linguistic structures. Extracting and translating named entities benefits many natural language processing problems such as cross-lingual information retrieval, cross-lingual question answering and machine translation. 
