ETER : a new metric for the evaluation of hierarchical named entity recognition

Mohamed Ben Jannet, Martine Adda-Decker, Olivier Galibert, Juliette Kahn, Sophie Rosset

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This paper addresses the question of hierarchical named entity evaluation. In particular, we focus on metrics to deal with complex named entity structures as those introduced within the QUAERO project. The intended goal is to propose a smart way of evaluating partially correctly detected complex entities, beyond the scope of traditional metrics. None of the existing metrics are fully adequate to evaluate the proposed QUAERO task involving entity detection, classification and decomposition. We are discussing the strong and weak points of the existing metrics. We then introduce a new metric, the Entity Tree Error Rate (ETER), to evaluate hierarchical and structured named entity detection, classification and decomposition. The ETER metric builds upon the commonly accepted SER metric, but it takes the complex entity structure into account by measuring errors not only at the slot (or complex entity) level but also at a basic (atomic) entity level. We are comparing our new metric to the standard one using first some examples and then a set of real data selected from the ETAPE evaluation results.
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Mohamed Ben Jannet, Martine Adda-Decker, Olivier Galibert, Juliette Kahn, and Sophie Rosset. 2014. ETER : a new metric for the evaluation of hierarchical named entity recognition. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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