The sale of heritage on eBay: Market trends and cultural value

The marketisation of heritage has been a major topic of interest among heritage specialists studying how the online marketplace shapes sales. Missing from that debate is a large-scale analysis seeking to understand market trends on popular selling platforms such as eBay. Sites such as eBay can inform what heritage items are of interest to the wider public, and thus what is potentially of greater cultural value, while also demonstrating monetary value trends. To better understand the sale of heritage on eBay’s international site, this work applies named entity recognition using conditional random fields, a method within natural language processing, and word dictionaries that inform on market trends. The methods demonstrate how Western markets, particularly the US and UK, have dominated sales for different cultures. Roman, Egyptian, Viking (Norse/Dane) and Near East objects are sold the most. Surprisingly, Cyprus and Egypt, two countries with relatively strict prohibition against the sale of heritage items, make the top 10 selling countries on eBay. Objects such as jewellery, statues and figurines, and religious items sell in relatively greater numbers, while masks and vessels (e.g. vases) sell at generally higher prices. Metal, stone and terracotta are commonly sold materials. More rare materials, such as those made of ivory, papyrus or wood, have relatively higher prices. Few sellers dominate the market, where in some months 40% of sales are controlled by the top 10 sellers. The tool used for the study is freely provided, demonstrating benefits in an automated approach to understanding sale trends.

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An Attention-Based Model Using Character Composition of Entities in Chinese Relation Extraction

Information ◽

10.3390/info11020079 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 79 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Xiaoyu Han ◽

Yue Zhang ◽

Wenkai Zhang ◽

Tinglei Huang

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Large Scale ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Relation Extraction ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Additional Information ◽

Named Entity ◽

Proposed Model ◽

The Relationship ◽

Crucial Part

Relation extraction is a vital task in natural language processing. It aims to identify the relationship between two specified entities in a sentence. Besides information contained in the sentence, additional information about the entities is verified to be helpful in relation extraction. Additional information such as entity type getting by NER (Named Entity Recognition) and description provided by knowledge base both have their limitations. Nevertheless, there exists another way to provide additional information which can overcome these limitations in Chinese relation extraction. As Chinese characters usually have explicit meanings and can carry more information than English letters. We suggest that characters that constitute the entities can provide additional information which is helpful for the relation extraction task, especially in large scale datasets. This assumption has never been verified before. The main obstacle is the lack of large-scale Chinese relation datasets. In this paper, first, we generate a large scale Chinese relation extraction dataset based on a Chinese encyclopedia. Second, we propose an attention-based model using the characters that compose the entities. The result on the generated dataset shows that these characters can provide useful information for the Chinese relation extraction task. By using this information, the attention mechanism we used can recognize the crucial part of the sentence that can express the relation. The proposed model outperforms other baseline models on our Chinese relation extraction dataset.

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Research on Chinese Named Entity Recognition Based on Ontology

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.195-196.1180 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 195-196 ◽

pp. 1180-1185

Author(s):

Wei Li Chang ◽

Fang Luo ◽

Ji Lai Qian

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Conditional Random Fields ◽

Critical Role ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Recall Rate ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Named Entity ◽

Part Of Speech ◽

Speech Features ◽

Precision Rate

As a critical role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as Information Extraction, Machine Translation etc, Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) remains a challenging task because of its characteristics. This paper proposes a method of Chinese NER, which combining Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) model with domain ontology as a semantic feature besides word and part of speech features. Experiments were made to compare the two kinds of feature templates, and the precision rate and recall rate of Chinese NER rose to 90.86% and 88.23%, which showed remarkable performance of the proposed approach. Combination of ontology and CRFs method increased effectively the precision and recall of Chinese NER.

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Statistical Method for Named Entity Recognition in Telugu, an Indian Language

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b3500.078219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 4211-4216

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Conditional Random Fields ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Semantic Features ◽

Indian Language ◽

Named Entities ◽

Maximum Entropy Models ◽

Named Entity ◽

Proper Nouns

One of the important tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is Named Entity Recognition (NER). The primary operation of NER is to identify proper nouns i.e. to locate all the named entities in the text and tag them as certain named entity categories such as Entity, Time expression and Numeric expression. In the previous works, NER for Telugu language is addressed with Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and Maximum Entropy models however they failed to handle ambiguous named entity tags for the same named entity. This paper presents a hybrid statistical system for Named Entity Recognition in Telugu language in which named entities are identified by both dictionary-based approach and statistical Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The proposed method uses Lexicon-lookup dictionary and contexts based on semantic features for predicting named entity tags. Further HMM is used to resolve the named entity ambiguities in predicted named entity tags. The present work reports an average accuracy of 86.3% for finding the named entities

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A Software Tool for Biomedical Information Extraction (And Beyond)

Health Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-988-5.ch061 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 975-985

Author(s):

Burr Settles

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Language Processing ◽

Conditional Random Fields ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Software Tool ◽

Cell Types ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Named Entity ◽

Software Distribution ◽

Classification Information

ABNER (A Biomedical Named Entity Recognizer) is an open-source software tool for text mining in the molecular biology literature. It processes unstructured biomedical documents in order to discover and annotate mentions of genes, proteins, cell types, and other entities of interest. This task, known as named entity recognition (NER), is an important first step for many larger information management goals in biomedicine, namely extraction of biochemical relationships, document classification, information retrieval, and the like. To accomplish this task, ABNER uses state-of-the-art machine learning models for sequence labeling called conditional random fields (CRFs). The software distribution comes bundled with two models that are pre-trained on standard evaluation corpora. ABNER can run as a stand-alone application with a graphical user interface, or be accessed as a Java API allowing it to be re-trained with new labeled corpora and incorporated into other, higher-level applications. This chapter describes the software and its features, presents an overview of the underlying technology, and provides a discussion of some of the more advanced natural language processing systems for which ABNER has been used as a component. ABNER is open-source and freely available from http://pages. cs.wisc.edu/~bsettles/abner/

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A Software Tool for Biomedical Information Extraction (And Beyond)

Information Retrieval in Biomedicine ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-274-9.ch017 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 315-324

Author(s):

Burr Settles

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Language Processing ◽

Conditional Random Fields ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Software Tool ◽

Cell Types ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Named Entity ◽

Software Distribution ◽

Classification Information

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Unsupervised cross-lingual model transfer for named entity recognition with contextualized word representations

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0257230 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (9) ◽

pp. e0257230

Author(s):

Huijiong Yan ◽

Tao Qian ◽

Liang Xie ◽

Shanguang Chen

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Large Scale ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Language Models ◽

Competitive Performance ◽

Named Entity ◽

Model Transfer ◽

The Cross ◽

Cross Lingual

Named entity recognition (NER) is one fundamental task in the natural language processing (NLP) community. Supervised neural network models based on contextualized word representations can achieve highly-competitive performance, which requires a large-scale manually-annotated corpus for training. While for the resource-scarce languages, the construction of such as corpus is always expensive and time-consuming. Thus, unsupervised cross-lingual transfer is one good solution to address the problem. In this work, we investigate the unsupervised cross-lingual NER with model transfer based on contextualized word representations, which greatly advances the cross-lingual NER performance. We study several model transfer settings of the unsupervised cross-lingual NER, including (1) different types of the pretrained transformer-based language models as input, (2) the exploration strategies of the multilingual contextualized word representations, and (3) multi-source adaption. In particular, we propose an adapter-based word representation method combining with parameter generation network (PGN) better to capture the relationship between the source and target languages. We conduct experiments on a benchmark ConLL dataset involving four languages to simulate the cross-lingual setting. Results show that we can obtain highly-competitive performance by cross-lingual model transfer. In particular, our proposed adapter-based PGN model can lead to significant improvements for cross-lingual NER.

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An Annotated Corpus of Crime-Related Portuguese Documents for NLP and Machine Learning Processing

Data ◽

10.3390/data6070071 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (7) ◽

pp. 71

Author(s):

Gonçalo Carnaz ◽

Mário Antunes ◽

Vitor Beires Nogueira

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Language Processing ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Automatic Identification ◽

Named Entities ◽

Related Data ◽

Named Entity ◽

Chain Of Custody ◽

Evidence Collection

Criminal investigations collect and analyze the facts related to a crime, from which the investigators can deduce evidence to be used in court. It is a multidisciplinary and applied science, which includes interviews, interrogations, evidence collection, preservation of the chain of custody, and other methods and techniques of investigation. These techniques produce both digital and paper documents that have to be carefully analyzed to identify correlations and interactions among suspects, places, license plates, and other entities that are mentioned in the investigation. The computerized processing of these documents is a helping hand to the criminal investigation, as it allows the automatic identification of entities and their relations, being some of which difficult to identify manually. There exists a wide set of dedicated tools, but they have a major limitation: they are unable to process criminal reports in the Portuguese language, as an annotated corpus for that purpose does not exist. This paper presents an annotated corpus, composed of a collection of anonymized crime-related documents, which were extracted from official and open sources. The dataset was produced as the result of an exploratory initiative to collect crime-related data from websites and conditioned-access police reports. The dataset was evaluated and a mean precision of 0.808, recall of 0.722, and F1-score of 0.733 were obtained with the classification of the annotated named-entities present in the crime-related documents. This corpus can be employed to benchmark Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools to detect and correlate entities in the documents. Some examples are sentence detection, named-entity recognition, and identification of terms related to the criminal domain.

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Towards corpus and model: Hierarchical structured-attention-based features for Indonesian named entity recognition

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems ◽

10.3233/jifs-202286 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Yingwen Fu ◽

Nankai Lin ◽

Xiaotian Lin ◽

Shengyi Jiang

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Language Models ◽

Neural Models ◽

Performance Models ◽

Named Entity ◽

High Resource ◽

Benchmark Datasets

Named entity recognition (NER) is fundamental to natural language processing (NLP). Most state-of-the-art researches on NER are based on pre-trained language models (PLMs) or classic neural models. However, these researches are mainly oriented to high-resource languages such as English. While for Indonesian, related resources (both in dataset and technology) are not yet well-developed. Besides, affix is an important word composition for Indonesian language, indicating the essentiality of character and token features for token-wise Indonesian NLP tasks. However, features extracted by currently top-performance models are insufficient. Aiming at Indonesian NER task, in this paper, we build an Indonesian NER dataset (IDNER) comprising over 50 thousand sentences (over 670 thousand tokens) to alleviate the shortage of labeled resources in Indonesian. Furthermore, we construct a hierarchical structured-attention-based model (HSA) for Indonesian NER to extract sequence features from different perspectives. Specifically, we use an enhanced convolutional structure as well as an enhanced attention structure to extract deeper features from characters and tokens. Experimental results show that HSA establishes competitive performance on IDNER and three benchmark datasets.

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Obtaining Knowledge in Pathology Reports Through a Natural Language Processing Approach With Classification, Named-Entity Recognition, and Relation-Extraction Heuristics

JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics ◽

10.1200/cci.19.00008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tomasz Oliwa ◽

Steven B. Maron ◽

Leah M. Chase ◽

Samantha Lomnicki ◽

Daniel V.T. Catenacci ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Natural Language Processing ◽

Natural Language ◽

Language Processing ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Classification Model ◽

Supervised Machine Learning ◽

Named Entity ◽

Pathology Reports

PURPOSE Robust institutional tumor banks depend on continuous sample curation or else subsequent biopsy or resection specimens are overlooked after initial enrollment. Curation automation is hindered by semistructured free-text clinical pathology notes, which complicate data abstraction. Our motivation is to develop a natural language processing method that dynamically identifies existing pathology specimen elements necessary for locating specimens for future use in a manner that can be re-implemented by other institutions. PATIENTS AND METHODS Pathology reports from patients with gastroesophageal cancer enrolled in The University of Chicago GI oncology tumor bank were used to train and validate a novel composite natural language processing-based pipeline with a supervised machine learning classification step to separate notes into internal (primary review) and external (consultation) reports; a named-entity recognition step to obtain label (accession number), location, date, and sublabels (block identifiers); and a results proofreading step. RESULTS We analyzed 188 pathology reports, including 82 internal reports and 106 external consult reports, and successfully extracted named entities grouped as sample information (label, date, location). Our approach identified up to 24 additional unique samples in external consult notes that could have been overlooked. Our classification model obtained 100% accuracy on the basis of 10-fold cross-validation. Precision, recall, and F1 for class-specific named-entity recognition models show strong performance. CONCLUSION Through a combination of natural language processing and machine learning, we devised a re-implementable and automated approach that can accurately extract specimen attributes from semistructured pathology notes to dynamically populate a tumor registry.

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A Survey of Arabic Named Entity Recognition and Classification

Computational Linguistics ◽

10.1162/coli_a_00178 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 469-510 ◽

Cited By ~ 62

Author(s):

Khaled Shaalan

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Named Entity Recognition ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Arabic Language ◽

Entity Recognition ◽

Named Entities ◽

Linguistic Resources ◽

Named Entity ◽

To Receive ◽

Made In

As more and more Arabic textual information becomes available through the Web in homes and businesses, via Internet and Intranet services, there is an urgent need for technologies and tools to process the relevant information. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an Information Extraction task that has become an integral part of many other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as Machine Translation and Information Retrieval. Arabic NER has begun to receive attention in recent years. The characteristics and peculiarities of Arabic, a member of the Semitic languages family, make dealing with NER a challenge. The performance of an Arabic NER component affects the overall performance of the NLP system in a positive manner. This article attempts to describe and detail the recent increase in interest and progress made in Arabic NER research. The importance of the NER task is demonstrated, the main characteristics of the Arabic language are highlighted, and the aspects of standardization in annotating named entities are illustrated. Moreover, the different Arabic linguistic resources are presented and the approaches used in Arabic NER field are explained. The features of common tools used in Arabic NER are described, and standard evaluation metrics are illustrated. In addition, a review of the state of the art of Arabic NER research is discussed. Finally, we present our conclusions. Throughout the presentation, illustrative examples are used for clarification.

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