Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition in E-Commerce with Positive Unlabeled Learning

Hanchu Zhang, Leonhard Hennig, Christoph Alt, Changjian Hu, Yao Meng, Chao Wang


Abstract
In this work, we introduce a bootstrapped, iterative NER model that integrates a PU learning algorithm for recognizing named entities in a low-resource setting. Our approach combines dictionary-based labeling with syntactically-informed label expansion to efficiently enrich the seed dictionaries. Experimental results on a dataset of manually annotated e-commerce product descriptions demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
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2020.ecnlp-1.1
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP
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July
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2020
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Seattle, WA, USA
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Shervin Malmasi, Surya Kallumadi, Nicola Ueffing, Oleg Rokhlenko, Eugene Agichtein, Ido Guy
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ECNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–6
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.ecnlp-1.1
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.ecnlp-1.1
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Hanchu Zhang, Leonhard Hennig, Christoph Alt, Changjian Hu, Yao Meng, and Chao Wang. 2020. Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition in E-Commerce with Positive Unlabeled Learning. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP, pages 1–6, Seattle, WA, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition in E-Commerce with Positive Unlabeled Learning (Zhang et al., ECNLP 2020)
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