@inproceedings{espinosa-etal-2016-learning,
title = "Learning to recognise named entities in tweets by exploiting weakly labelled data",
author = "Espinosa, Kurt Junshean and
Batista-Navarro, Riza Theresa and
Ananiadou, Sophia",
editor = "Han, Bo and
Ritter, Alan and
Derczynski, Leon and
Xu, Wei and
Baldwin, Tim",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text ({WNUT})",
month = dec,
year = "2016",
address = "Osaka, Japan",
publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W16-3921",
pages = "153--163",
abstract = "Named entity recognition (NER) in social media (e.g., Twitter) is a challenging task due to the noisy nature of text. As part of our participation in the W-NUT 2016 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task, we proposed an unsupervised learning approach using deep neural networks and leverage a knowledge base (i.e., DBpedia) to bootstrap sparse entity types with weakly labelled data. To further boost the performance, we employed a more sophisticated tagging scheme and applied dropout as a regularisation technique in order to reduce overfitting. Even without hand-crafting linguistic features nor leveraging any of the W-NUT-provided gazetteers, we obtained robust performance with our approach, which ranked third amongst all shared task participants according to the official evaluation on a gold standard named entity-annotated corpus of 3,856 tweets.",
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%T Learning to recognise named entities in tweets by exploiting weakly labelled data
%A Espinosa, Kurt Junshean
%A Batista-Navarro, Riza Theresa
%A Ananiadou, Sophia
%Y Han, Bo
%Y Ritter, Alan
%Y Derczynski, Leon
%Y Xu, Wei
%Y Baldwin, Tim
%S Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT)
%D 2016
%8 December
%I The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
%C Osaka, Japan
%F espinosa-etal-2016-learning
%X Named entity recognition (NER) in social media (e.g., Twitter) is a challenging task due to the noisy nature of text. As part of our participation in the W-NUT 2016 Named Entity Recognition Shared Task, we proposed an unsupervised learning approach using deep neural networks and leverage a knowledge base (i.e., DBpedia) to bootstrap sparse entity types with weakly labelled data. To further boost the performance, we employed a more sophisticated tagging scheme and applied dropout as a regularisation technique in order to reduce overfitting. Even without hand-crafting linguistic features nor leveraging any of the W-NUT-provided gazetteers, we obtained robust performance with our approach, which ranked third amongst all shared task participants according to the official evaluation on a gold standard named entity-annotated corpus of 3,856 tweets.
%U https://aclanthology.org/W16-3921
%P 153-163
Markdown (Informal)
[Learning to recognise named entities in tweets by exploiting weakly labelled data](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3921) (Espinosa et al., WNUT 2016)
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