LMN at SemEval-2022 Task 11: A Transformer-based System for English Named Entity Recognition

Ngoc Lai


Abstract
Processing complex and ambiguous named entities is a challenging research problem, but it has not received sufficient attention from the natural language processing community. In this short paper, we present our participation in the English track of SemEval-2022 Task 11: Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition. Inspired by the recent advances in pretrained Transformer language models, we propose a simple yet effective Transformer-based baseline for the task. Despite its simplicity, our proposed approach shows competitive results in the leaderboard as we ranked 12 over 30 teams. Our system achieved a macro F1 score of 72.50% on the held-out test set. We have also explored a data augmentation approach using entity linking. While the approach does not improve the final performance, we also discuss it in this paper.
Anthology ID:
2022.semeval-1.197
Volume:
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1438–1443
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.197
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.197
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Cite (ACL):
Ngoc Lai. 2022. LMN at SemEval-2022 Task 11: A Transformer-based System for English Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 1438–1443, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LMN at SemEval-2022 Task 11: A Transformer-based System for English Named Entity Recognition (Lai, SemEval 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.197.pdf
Data
MultiCoNER