Efficient Dependency-Guided Named Entity Recognition

Authors

  • Zhanming Jie Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • Aldrian Muis Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • Wei Lu Singapore University of Technology and Design

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v31i1.11009

Keywords:

Named entity recognition, dependency trees, global structured information, dependency-guided model, conditional random fields

Abstract

Named entity recognition (NER), which focuses on the extraction of semantically meaningful named entities and their semantic classes from text, serves as an indispensable component for several down-stream natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as relation extraction and event extraction. Dependency trees, on the other hand, also convey crucial semantic-level information. It has been shown previously that such information can be used to improve the performance of NER. In this work, we investigate on how to better utilize the structured information conveyed by dependency trees to improve the performance of NER. Specifically, unlike existing approaches which only exploit dependency information for designing local features, we show that certain global structured information of the dependency trees can be exploited when building NER models where such information can provide guided learning and inference. Through extensive experiments, we show that our proposed novel dependency-guided NER model performs competitively with models based on conventional semi-Markov conditional random fields, while requiring significantly less running time.

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Published

2017-02-12

How to Cite

Jie, Z., Muis, A., & Lu, W. (2017). Efficient Dependency-Guided Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v31i1.11009