STHAL: Location-mention Identification in Tweets of Indian-context

Kartik Verma, Shobhit Sinha, Md. Shad Akhtar, Vikram Goyal


Abstract
We investigate the problem of extracting Indian-locations from a given crowd-sourced textual dataset. The problem of extracting fine-grained Indian-locations has many challenges. One challenge in the task is to collect relevant dataset from the crowd-sourced platforms that contain locations. The second challenge lies in extracting the location entities from the collected data. We provide an in-depth review of the information collection process and our annotation guidelines such that a reliable dataset annotation is guaranteed. We evaluate many recent algorithms and models, including Conditional Random fields (CRF), Bi-LSTM-CNN and BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), on our developed dataset named . The study shows the best F1-score of 72.49% for BERT, followed by Bi-LSTM-CNN and CRF. As a result of our work, we prepare a publicly-available annotated dataset of Indian geolocations that can be used by the research community. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/vkartik2k/STHAL.
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2020.icon-main.52
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2020
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Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Dipti Misra Sharma, Rajeev Sangal
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ICON
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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379–383
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Kartik Verma, Shobhit Sinha, Md. Shad Akhtar, and Vikram Goyal. 2020. STHAL: Location-mention Identification in Tweets of Indian-context. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 379–383, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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STHAL: Location-mention Identification in Tweets of Indian-context (Verma et al., ICON 2020)
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Code
 vkartik2k/sthal
Data
CoNLL 2002