Named entity recognition for novel types by transfer learning

Lizhen Qu, Gabriela Ferraro, Liyuan Zhou, Weiwei Hou, Timothy Baldwin

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    Abstract

    In named entity recognition, we often don't have a large in-domain training corpus or a knowledge base with adequate coverage to train a model directly. In this paper, we propose a method where, given training data in a related domain with similar (but not identical) named entity (NE) types and a small amount of in-domain training data, we use transfer learning to learn a domain-specific NE model. That is, the novelty in the task setup is that we assume not just domain mismatch, but also label mismatch.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationEMNLP 2016 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
    Pages899-905
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)9781945626258
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    Event2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016 - Austin, United States
    Duration: 1 Nov 20165 Nov 2016

    Publication series

    NameEMNLP 2016 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAustin
    Period1/11/165/11/16

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