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in-depth analysis of what happens to individual cases
during the process.
We claim that this approach can be adapted to suit
any kind of named entities. It is just required to de-
velop a mechanism to find highly ambiguous false
positives among the extracted named entities. Co-
herency measures can be used to find highly ambigu-
ous named entities. For future research, we plan to
apply and enhance our approach for other types of
named entities and other domains. Furthermore, the
approach appears to be fully language independent,
therefore we like to prove that this is the case and
investigate its effect on texts in multiple and mixed
languages.
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