Averie Ho Zoen So


2023

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garNER at SemEval-2023: Simplified Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition
Md Zobaer Hossain | Averie Ho Zoen So | Silviya Silwal | H. Andres Gonzalez Gongora | Ahnaf Mozib Samin | Jahedul Alam Junaed | Aritra Mazumder | Sourav Saha | Sabiha Tahsin Soha
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

This paper presents our solution, garNER, to the SemEval-2023 MultiConer task. We propose a knowledge augmentation approach by directly querying entities from the Wikipedia API and appending the summaries of the entities to the input sentence. These entities are either retrieved from the labeled training set (Gold Entity) or from off-the-shelf entity taggers (Entity Extractor). Ensemble methods are then applied across multiple models to get the final prediction. Our analysis shows that the added contexts are beneficial only when such contexts are relevant to the target-named entities, but detrimental when the contexts are irrelevant.