Title
Exploring Unsupervised Features in Conditional Random Fields for Spanish Named Entity Recognition
Date Issued
01 February 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Unsupervised features such as word representations mostly given by word embeddings have been shown significantly improve semi supervised Named Entity Recognition (NER) for English language. In this work we investigate whether unsupervised features can boost (semi) supervised NER in Spanish. To do so, we use word representations and collocations as additional features in a linear chain Conditional Random Field (CRF) classifier. Experimental results (82.44% F-score on the CoNLL-2002 corpus and 65.72% F-score on Ancora Corpus) show that our approach is comparable to some state-of-art Deep Learning approaches for Spanish, in particular when using cross-lingual Word Representations.
Start page
283
End page
288
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85015146121
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 2016 5th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2016
ISBN of the container
9781509035663
Conference
Proceedings - 2016 5th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2016
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