Combined self-attention mechanism for named entity recognition in social media

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Abstract Named entity recognition (NER) in Chinese social media is less effective than in standard news mainly due to the normalization and the size of the existing annotated corpus. In recent years, research on named entity recognition in Chinese social media has tended to use external knowledge and joint training to improve performance due to the small size of the annotated corpus. However, there are few studies on mining entity recognition characteristics in social media. This article focuses on named entity recognition in text articles using a neural network model that combines bi-directional long short-term memory with a self-attention mechanism. This model extracts context information from different dimensions to better understand and represent the sentence structure and improve the recognition performance. Tests on the Weibo NER released corpus show that this method is more effective than previous approaches and that this method has a 58.76% F₁-score without using external knowledge or joint learning.

Keywords named entity recognition (NER) Chinese social media self-attention mechanism

Issue Date: 01 June 2019

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	LI Mingyang
	KONG Fang

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LI Mingyang,KONG Fang. Combined self-attention mechanism for named entity recognition in social media[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2019, 59(6): 461-467.

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