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Combining rule-based and statistical mechanisms for low-resource named entity recognition

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We describe a multifaceted approach to named entity recognition that can be deployed with minimal data resources and a handful of hours of non-expert annotation. We describe how this approach… Click to show full abstract

We describe a multifaceted approach to named entity recognition that can be deployed with minimal data resources and a handful of hours of non-expert annotation. We describe how this approach was applied in the 2016 LoReHLT evaluation and demonstrate that both statistical and rule-based approaches contribute to our performance. We also demonstrate across many languages the value of selecting the sentences to be annotated when training on small amounts of data.

Keywords: rule based; named entity; entity recognition

Journal Title: Machine Translation
Year Published: 2017

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