A Multi-task Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Social Media Data
Gustavo Aguilar, Suraj Maharjan, Adrian Pastor López-Monroy, Thamar Solorio
Abstract
Named Entity Recognition for social media data is challenging because of its inherent noisiness. In addition to improper grammatical structures, it contains spelling inconsistencies and numerous informal abbreviations. We propose a novel multi-task approach by employing a more general secondary task of Named Entity (NE) segmentation together with the primary task of fine-grained NE categorization. The multi-task neural network architecture learns higher order feature representations from word and character sequences along with basic Part-of-Speech tags and gazetteer information. This neural network acts as a feature extractor to feed a Conditional Random Fields classifier. We were able to obtain the first position in the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT-2017) with a 41.86% entity F1-score and a 40.24% surface F1-score.- Anthology ID:
- W17-4419
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Leon Derczynski, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin
- Venue:
- WNUT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 148–153
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-4419
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-4419
- Cite (ACL):
- Gustavo Aguilar, Suraj Maharjan, Adrian Pastor López-Monroy, and Thamar Solorio. 2017. A Multi-task Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 148–153, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Multi-task Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Social Media Data (Aguilar et al., WNUT 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-bitext-workshop/W17-4419.pdf
- Code
- tavo91/NER-WNUT17
- Data
- WNUT 2017