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Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers
March 6, 2020
The goal of this work is to improve the performance of a neural named entity recognition system by adding input features that indicate a word is part of a name included in a gazetteer. This article describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph as well as how to integrate the information into a neural NER system. Experiments reveal that the approach yields performance gains in two distinct languages: a high-resource, word-based language, English, and a high-resource, character-based language, Chinese. Experiments were also performed in a low-resource language, Russian, on a newly annotated Russian NER corpus from Reddit, tagged with four core types and twelve extended types. This article reports a baseline score. It is a longer version of a paper, Gazetteer Generation for Neural Named Entity Recognition, in the 33rd FLAIRS conference (Song et al. 2020).
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arXiv:2003.03072
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