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title = "Named Entity Recognition with Context-Aware Dictionary Knowledge",
author = "Wu, Chuhan and
Wu, Fangzhao and
Qi, Tao and
Huang, Yongfeng",
editor = "Sun, Maosong and
Li, Sujian and
Zhang, Yue and
Liu, Yang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = oct,
year = "2020",
address = "Haikou, China",
publisher = "Chinese Information Processing Society of China",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.85",
pages = "915--926",
abstract = "Named entity recognition (NER) is an important task in the natural language processing field. Existing NER methods heavily rely on labeled data for model training, and their performance on rare entities is usually unsatisfactory. Entity dictionaries can cover many entities including both popular ones and rare ones, and are useful for NER. However, many entity names are context-dependent and it is not optimal to directly apply dictionaries without considering the context. In this paper, we propose a neural NER approach which can exploit dictionary knowledge with contextual information. We propose to learn context-aware dictionary knowledge by modeling the interactions between the entities in dictionaries and their contexts via context-dictionary attention. In addition, we propose an auxiliary term classification task to predict the types of the matched entity names, and jointly train it with the NER model to fuse both contexts and dictionary knowledge into NER. Extensive experiments on the CoNLL-2003 benchmark dataset validate the effectiveness of our approach in exploiting entity dictionaries to improve the performance of various NER models.",
language = "English",
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%T Named Entity Recognition with Context-Aware Dictionary Knowledge
%A Wu, Chuhan
%A Wu, Fangzhao
%A Qi, Tao
%A Huang, Yongfeng
%Y Sun, Maosong
%Y Li, Sujian
%Y Zhang, Yue
%Y Liu, Yang
%S Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2020
%8 October
%I Chinese Information Processing Society of China
%C Haikou, China
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%X Named entity recognition (NER) is an important task in the natural language processing field. Existing NER methods heavily rely on labeled data for model training, and their performance on rare entities is usually unsatisfactory. Entity dictionaries can cover many entities including both popular ones and rare ones, and are useful for NER. However, many entity names are context-dependent and it is not optimal to directly apply dictionaries without considering the context. In this paper, we propose a neural NER approach which can exploit dictionary knowledge with contextual information. We propose to learn context-aware dictionary knowledge by modeling the interactions between the entities in dictionaries and their contexts via context-dictionary attention. In addition, we propose an auxiliary term classification task to predict the types of the matched entity names, and jointly train it with the NER model to fuse both contexts and dictionary knowledge into NER. Extensive experiments on the CoNLL-2003 benchmark dataset validate the effectiveness of our approach in exploiting entity dictionaries to improve the performance of various NER models.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.85
%P 915-926
Markdown (Informal)
[Named Entity Recognition with Context-Aware Dictionary Knowledge](https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.85) (Wu et al., CCL 2020)
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