Since a direct comparison to the log-linear named entity tagger described in<cite> (Huang et al., 2001</cite> ) (we refer to this approach as HZP log-linear below) is not possible due to the use of different corpora and annotation standards, we applied a similar named entity tagger based on a log-linear model with trigram features to our data (we refer to this approach as Col log-linear as the tagger was provided by Michael Collins).