@inproceedings{dai-etal-2020-effective,
    title = "An Effective Transition-based Model for Discontinuous {NER}",
    author = "Dai, Xiang  and
      Karimi, Sarvnaz  and
      Hachey, Ben  and
      Paris, Cecile",
    editor = "Jurafsky, Dan  and
      Chai, Joyce  and
      Schluter, Natalie  and
      Tetreault, Joel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.520",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.520",
    pages = "5860--5870",
    abstract = "Unlike widely used Named Entity Recognition (NER) data sets in generic domains, biomedical NER data sets often contain mentions consisting of discontinuous spans. Conventional sequence tagging techniques encode Markov assumptions that are efficient but preclude recovery of these mentions. We propose a simple, effective transition-based model with generic neural encoding for discontinuous NER. Through extensive experiments on three biomedical data sets, we show that our model can effectively recognize discontinuous mentions without sacrificing the accuracy on continuous mentions.",
}