DaN+: Danish Nested Named Entities and Lexical Normalization

Barbara Plank, Kristian Nørgaard Jensen, Rob van der Goot


Abstract
This paper introduces DAN+, a new multi-domain corpus and annotation guidelines for Dan-ish nested named entities (NEs) and lexical normalization to support research on cross-lingualcross-domain learning for a less-resourced language. We empirically assess three strategies tomodel the two-layer Named Entity Recognition (NER) task. We compare transfer capabilitiesfrom German versus in-language annotation from scratch. We examine language-specific versusmultilingual BERT, and study the effect of lexical normalization on NER. Our results show that 1) the most robust strategy is multi-task learning which is rivaled by multi-label decoding, 2) BERT-based NER models are sensitive to domain shifts, and 3) in-language BERT and lexicalnormalization are the most beneficial on the least canonical data. Our results also show that anout-of-domain setup remains challenging, while performance on news plateaus quickly. Thishighlights the importance of cross-domain evaluation of cross-lingual transfer.
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2020.coling-main.583
Volume:
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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6649–6662
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.583
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.583
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Barbara Plank, Kristian Nørgaard Jensen, and Rob van der Goot. 2020. DaN+: Danish Nested Named Entities and Lexical Normalization. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6649–6662, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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DaN+: Danish Nested Named Entities and Lexical Normalization (Plank et al., COLING 2020)
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Code
 bplank/DaNplus
Data
DaN+