Bénédicte Diot-Parvaz Ahmad


2023

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Ertim at SemEval-2023 Task 2: Fine-tuning of Transformer Language Models and External Knowledge Leveraging for NER in Farsi, English, French and Chinese
Kevin Deturck | Pierre Magistry | Bénédicte Diot-Parvaz Ahmad | Ilaine Wang | Damien Nouvel | Hugo Lafayette
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)

Transformer language models are now a solid baseline for Named Entity Recognition and can be significantly improved by leveraging complementary resources, either by integrating external knowledge or by annotating additional data. In a preliminary step, this work presents experiments on fine-tuning transformer models. Then, a set of experiments has been conducted with a Wikipedia-based reclassification system. Additionally, we conducted a small annotation campaign on the Farsi language to evaluate the impact of additional data. These two methods with complementary resources showed improvements compared to fine-tuning only.