Minanto at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for Named Entity Recognition on English Data

Antonia Höfer, Mina Mottahedin


Abstract
Within the scope of the shared task MultiCoNER II our aim was to improve the recognition of named entities in English. We as team Minanto fine-tuned a cross-lingual model for Named Entity Recognition on English data and achieved an average F1 score of 51.47\% in the final submission. We found that a monolingual model works better on English data than a cross-lingual and that the input of external data from earlier Named Entity Recognition tasks provides only minor improvements. In this paper we present our system, discuss our results and analyze the impact of external data.
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2023.semeval-1.156
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1127–1130
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.156
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.156
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Antonia Höfer and Mina Mottahedin. 2023. Minanto at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for Named Entity Recognition on English Data. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1127–1130, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Minanto at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Fine-tuning XLM-RoBERTa for Named Entity Recognition on English Data (Höfer & Mottahedin, SemEval 2023)
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