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Focused named entity recognition using machine learning

  • Li Zhang*
  • , Yue Pan
  • , Tong Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that these focused named entities are useful for many natural language processing applications, such as document summarization, search result ranking, and entity detection and tracking. We propose a statistical model for focused named entity recognition by converting it into a classification problem. We then study the impact of various linguistic features and compare a number of classification algorithms. From experiments on an annotated Chinese news corpus, we demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve near human-level accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages281-288
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)1581138814, 9781581138818
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - Sheffield, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Jul 2004 → 29 Jul 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CitySheffield
Period25/07/04 → 29/07/04

Keywords

  • Decision tree
  • Information retrieval
  • Naive Bayes
  • Robust risk minimization
  • Text summarization
  • Topic identification

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