@inproceedings{RatinovRo09,
 author = {L. Ratinov and D. Roth},
 title = {Design Challenges and Misconceptions in Named Entity Recognition},
 booktitle = {Proc. of the Annual Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)},
 month = {Jun},
 year = {2009},
 pages = {},
 comment = {Named entity recognition; information extraction; knowledge resources; word class models; gazetteers; non-local features; global features; inference methods; BIO vs. BIOLU; text chunk representation},
 funding = {MIAS,
 SoD,
 Library},
 projects = {IE},
 url = "http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~danr/Papers/RatinovRo09.pdf" }