Abstract
Named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify text spans that mention named entities and classify them into pre-defined categories. For Chinese NER task, most of the existing methods are character-based sequence labeling models and achieve great success. However, these methods usually ignore lexical knowledge, which leads to false prediction of entity boundaries. Moreover, these methods have difficulties in capturing tag dependencies. In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Multi-pass Memory Network with Hierarchical Tagging Mechanism (AMMNHT) to address all above problems. Specifically, to reduce the errors of predicting entity boundaries, we propose an adaptive multi-pass memory network to exploit lexical knowledge. In addition, we propose a hierarchical tagging layer to learn tag dependencies. Experimental results on three widely used Chinese NER datasets demonstrate that our proposed model significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.ccl-1.86
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Haikou, China
- Editors:
- Maosong Sun (孙茂松), Sujian Li (李素建), Yue Zhang (张岳), Yang Liu (刘洋)
- Venue:
- CCL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Chinese Information Processing Society of China
- Note:
- Pages:
- 927–938
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.ccl-1.86
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, and Jun Zhao. 2020. Chinese Named Entity Recognition via Adaptive Multi-pass Memory Network with Hierarchical Tagging Mechanism. In Proceedings of the 19th Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 927–938, Haikou, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
- Cite (Informal):
- Chinese Named Entity Recognition via Adaptive Multi-pass Memory Network with Hierarchical Tagging Mechanism (Cao et al., CCL 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2020.ccl-1.86.pdf
- Data
- Weibo NER