scholarly journals A Sequence-to-Set Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeqi Tan ◽  
Yongliang Shen ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Weiming Lu ◽  
Yueting Zhuang
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Bipartite Matching ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Fixed Set ◽  
Sequence Method

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely studied task in natural language processing. Recently, a growing number of studies have focused on the nested NER. The span-based methods, considering the entity recognition as a span classification task, can deal with nested entities naturally. But they suffer from the huge search space and the lack of interactions between entities. To address these issues, we propose a novel sequence-to-set neural network for nested NER. Instead of specifying candidate spans in advance, we provide a fixed set of learnable vectors to learn the patterns of the valuable spans. We utilize a non-autoregressive decoder to predict the final set of entities in one pass, in which we are able to capture dependencies between entities. Compared with the sequence-to-sequence method, our model is more suitable for such unordered recognition task as it is insensitive to the label order. In addition, we utilize the loss function based on bipartite matching to compute the overall training loss. Experimental results show that our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on three nested NER corpora: ACE 2004, ACE 2005 and KBP 2017. The code is available at https://github.com/zqtan1024/sequence-to-set.

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

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
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.

SCIENTIFIC NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION WITH THE HELP OF MODERN METHODS

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
A.M. Yelenov ◽  
◽  
A.B. Jaxylykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Learning Area

This research focuses on a comparative study of the Named Entity Recognition task for scientific article texts. Natural language processing could be considered as one of the cornerstones in the machine learning area which devotes its attention to the problems connected with the understanding of different natural languages and linguistic analysis. It was already shown that current deep learning techniques have a good performance and accuracy in such areas as image recognition, pattern recognition, computer vision, that could mean that such technology probably would be successful in the neuro-linguistic programming area too and lead to a dramatic increase on the research interest on this topic. For a very long time, quite trivial algorithms have been used in this area, such as support vector machines or various types of regression, basic encoding on text data was also used, which did not provide high results. The following dataset was used to process the experiment models: Dataset Scientific Entity Relation Core. The algorithms used were Long short-term memory, Random Forest Classifier with Conditional Random Fields, and Named-entity recognition with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. In the findings, the metrics scores of all models were compared to each other to make a comparison. This research is devoted to the processing of scientific articles, concerning the machine learning area, because the subject is not investigated on enough properly level.The consideration of this task can help machines to understand natural languages better, so that they can solve other neuro-linguistic programming tasks better, enhancing scores in common sense.

Location Named-Entity Recognition using Rule-Based Approach for Balinese Texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 435
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Ayu Sherly Anggita S ◽  
Ngurah Agus Sanjaya ER
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Rule Based Approach ◽  
F Measure

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Recognition Entity (NER) is a sub-discussion widely used for research. The NER’s main task is to help identify and detect the entity-named in the sentence, such as personal names, locations, organizations, and many other entities. In this paper, we present a Location NER system for Balinese texts using a rule-based approach. NER in the Balinese document is an essential and challenging task because there is no research on this. The rule-based approach using human-made rules to extract entity name is one of the most famous ways to extract entity names as well as machine learning. The system aims to identify proper names in the corpus and classify them into locations class. Precision, recall, and F-measure used for the evaluation. Our results show that our proposed model is trustworthy enough, having average recall, precision, and f-measure values for the specific location entity, respectively, 0.935, 0.936, and 0.92. These results prove that our system is capable of recognizing named-entities of Balinese texts.

scholarly journals Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network Approach for Arabic Named Entity Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ali ◽  
Guanzheng Tan ◽  
Aamir Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Word Embedding ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Lstm Network

Recurrent neural network (RNN) has achieved remarkable success in sequence labeling tasks with memory requirement. RNN can remember previous information of a sequence and can thus be used to solve natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Named entity recognition (NER) is a common task of NLP and can be considered a classification problem. We propose a bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) model for this entity recognition task of the Arabic text. The LSTM network can process sequences and relate to each part of it, which makes it useful for the NER task. Moreover, we use pre-trained word embedding to train the inputs that are fed into the LSTM network. The proposed model is evaluated on a popular dataset called “ANERcorp.” Experimental results show that the model with word embedding achieves a high F-score measure of approximately 88.01%.

scholarly journals Integrated Model for Morphological Analysis and Named Entity Recognition Based on Label Attention Networks in Korean

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3740
Author(s):  
Hongjin Kim ◽  
Harksoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Error Propagation ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Attention Networks ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Proposed Model

In well-spaced Korean sentences, morphological analysis is the first step in natural language processing, in which a Korean sentence is segmented into a sequence of morphemes and the parts of speech of the segmented morphemes are determined. Named entity recognition is a natural language processing task carried out to obtain morpheme sequences with specific meanings, such as person, location, and organization names. Although morphological analysis and named entity recognition are closely associated with each other, they have been independently studied and have exhibited the inevitable error propagation problem. Hence, we propose an integrated model based on label attention networks that simultaneously performs morphological analysis and named entity recognition. The proposed model comprises two layers of neural network models that are closely associated with each other. The lower layer performs a morphological analysis, whereas the upper layer performs a named entity recognition. In our experiments using a public gold-labeled dataset, the proposed model outperformed previous state-of-the-art models used for morphological analysis and named entity recognition. Furthermore, the results indicated that the integrated architecture could alleviate the error propagation problem.

scholarly journals Domain-Transferable Method for Named Entity Recognition Task

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Mikhailov ◽  
Tatiana Shavrina
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Neural Models ◽  
Named Entities ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Human Effort

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in the fields of natural language processing and information extraction. NER has been widely used as a standalone tool or an essential component in a variety of applications such as question answering, dialogue assistants and knowledge graphs development. However, training reliable NER models requires a large amount of labelled data which is expensive to obtain, particularly in specialized domains. This paper describes a method to learn a domain-specific NER model for an arbitrary set of named entities when domain-specific supervision is not available. We assume that the supervision can be obtained with no human effort, and neural models can learn from each other. The code, data and models are publicly available.

scholarly journals ABSA: Computational Measurement Analysis Approach for Prognosticated Aspect Extraction System

TEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 82-94
Author(s):  
Maganti Syamala ◽  
N.J. Nalini
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Aspect Extraction ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Measurement Analysis ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Rule Based Approach

Aspect based sentient analysis (ABSA) is identified as one of the current research problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Traditional ABSA requires manual aspect assignment for aspect extraction and sentiment analysis. In this paper, to automate the process, a domain-independent dynamic ABSA model by the fusion of Efficient Named Entity Recognition (E-NER) guided dependency parsing technique with Neural Networks (NN) is proposed. The extracted aspects and sentiment terms by E-NER are trained to a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) using Word embedding’s technique. Aspect categorybased polarity prediction is evaluated using NLTK Vader Sentiment package. The proposed model was compared to traditional rule-based approach, and the proposed dynamic model proved to yield better results by 17% when validated in terms of correctly classified instances, accuracy, precision, recall and F-Score using machine learning algorithms.

scholarly journals Learning Tag Dependencies for Sequence Tagging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Zhang ◽  
Hongshen Chen ◽  
Yihong Zhao ◽  
Qun Liu ◽  
Dawei Yin
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Channel Model ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Part Of Speech Tagging ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Speech Tagging

Sequence tagging is the basis for multiple applications in natural language processing. Despite successes in learning long term token sequence dependencies with neural network, tag dependencies are rarely considered previously. Sequence tagging actually possesses complex dependencies and interactions among the input tokens and the output tags. We propose a novel multi-channel model, which handles different ranges of token-tag dependencies and their interactions simultaneously. A tag LSTM is augmented to manage the output tag dependencies and word-tag interactions, while three mechanisms are presented to efficiently incorporate token context representation and tag dependency. Extensive experiments on part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition tasks show that  the proposed model outperforms the BiLSTM-CRF baseline by effectively incorporating the tag dependency feature.

scholarly journals Joint Entity-Relation Extraction via Improved Graph Attention Networks

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1746
Author(s):  
Qinghan Lai ◽  
Zihan Zhou ◽  
Song Liu
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Relation Extraction ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Attention Networks ◽  
Convolutional Networks ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Symmetry Relations

Joint named entity recognition and relation extraction is an essential natural language processing task that aims to identify entities and extract the corresponding relations in an end-to-end manner. At present, compared with the named entity recognition task, the relation extraction task performs poorly on complex text. To solve this problem, we proposed a novel joint model named extracting Entity-Relations viaImproved Graph Attention networks (ERIGAT), which enhances the ability of the relation extraction task. In our proposed model, we introduced the graph attention network to extract entities and relations after graph embedding based on constructing symmetry relations. To mitigate the over-smoothing problem of graph convolutional networks, inspired by matrix factorization, we improved the graph attention network by designing a new multi-head attention mechanism and sharing attention parameters. To enhance the model robustness, we adopted the adversarial training to generate adversarial samples for training by adding tiny perturbations. Comparing with typical baseline models, we comprehensively evaluated our model by conducting experiments on an open domain dataset (CoNLL04) and a medical domain dataset (ADE). The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of ERIGAT in extracting entity and relation information.

scholarly journals Chinese Medical Entity Recognition Model Based on Character and Word Vector Fusion

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Qinghui Zhang ◽  
Lei Hou ◽  
Pengtao Lv ◽  
Mengya Zhang ◽  
Hongwei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Vector Model ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Character Vector

The medical information carried in electronic medical records has high clinical research value, and medical named entity recognition is the key to extracting valuable information from large-scale medical texts. At present, most of the studies on Chinese medical named entity recognition are based on character vector model or word vector model. Owing to the complexity and specificity of Chinese text, the existing methods may fail to achieve good performance. In this study, we propose a Chinese medical named entity recognition method that fuses character and word vectors. The method expresses Chinese texts as character vectors and word vectors separately and fuses them in the model for features. The proposed model can effectively avoid the problems of missing character vector information and inaccurate word vector partitioning. On the CCKS 2019 dataset for the named entity recognition task of Chinese electronic medical records, the proposed model achieves good performance and can effectively improve the accuracy of Chinese medical named entity recognition compared with other baseline models.

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