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Named Entity Recognition
Sobha Lalitha DeviAU-KBC Research Centre
Chennai
Named Entity(NE) Recognition
• What is NE and What is not an NE• How to identify NE• Tagset and Annotation Guidelines • Methods Used in developing NER
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Why do NER?
• Key part of Information Extraction system• Robust handling of proper names essential for
many applications such as Summarization, IR, Anaphora,.........
• Pre-processing for different classification levels
• Information filtering • Information linking
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What is NER ?• NER involves identification of proper names in
texts, and classification into a set of predefined categories of interest.
• Three universally accepted categories: • Person, location and organisation
• Other common tasks: recognition of date/time expressions, measures (percent, money, weight etc), email addresses etc.
• Other domain-specific entities: names of Drugs, Genes, medical conditions, names of ships, bibliographic references etc.
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NER Definition
• Named entity recognition (NER) (also known as entity identification (EI) and entity extraction) is the task that locate and classify atomic elements in text into predefined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc.
John sold 5 companies in 2002.
<ENAMEX TYPE="PERSON">John</ENAMEX> sold <NUMEX TYPE="QUANTITY">5</NUMEX> companies in <TIMEX TYPE="DATE">2002</TIMEX>.
What is not NER?• NER is not event recognition.• NER does not create templates, • NER does not perform co-reference or entity linking,
– though these processes are often implemented alongside NER as part of a larger IE system.
• NER is not just matching text strings with pre-defined lists of names.
It recognises entities which are being used as entities in a given context.
• NER is not an easy task!
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Named Entity and Philosophy of Language
• Proper Names are defined by
– Descriptivist's theory of Names• Frege, Russell, Ludwig , Wittgenstein and John Searle
– Causal theory of Reference• Saul Kripke
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Descriptivist's theory of Names
Proper names either are synonymous with descriptions, or have their reference determined by virtue of the name's being associated with a description or cluster of descriptions that an object uniquely satisfies.
Causal theory of ReferenceProper names refer to an object by virtue of a causal connectionwith the object as mediated through communities of speakers. That is , proper names, in contrast to descriptions, are rigid designators.
Rigid designators :A proper name refers to the named object in every possible world in which the object exists.
Descriptions designate : a proper name as different objects in different possible worlds.
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Proper Names and Definite Descriptions
• A meaning of a Sentences involving Proper names could be substituted by a contextually appropriate description for a name.
eg: Otto von Bismarck can be known or described as the first Chancellor of the German Empire
Kripke argues that definite descriptions cannot be rigid designators . Because definite descriptions cannot be same/similar in all possible worlds
More on Kripke’s Proper name in Naming and Necessity 1980
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What is Named Entity
• Named Entities are – A Noun Phrase – Rigid Designators : It designates/denotes the same
thing in all possible worlds in which the same thing exists and does not designate anything else in those possible worlds in which that same thing does not exist
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EXAMPLES for Named Entity and not a Named entity
• Hotel & Taj Hotel
• Flower & Rose Flower
• Beach & Kovalam Beach
• Airport & Indira Gandhi International airport
• The School & Good Shepherd School
• Prime Minister & Mr. Manmohan Singh
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Some problems in indentifying NE
• Variation of NEs. – Manmohan Singh, Manmohan, Dr. Manmohan
Singh
• Ambiguity of NE types: – 1945 (date vs. time)– Washington (location vs. person)– May (person vs. month)– Tata (person vs. organization)
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Ambiguity Examples
• Person vs Location– Sir C. P Ramaswamy was the Divan of Travancore
(Per)– Sir C.P Ramaswamy Road is in Chennai (Loc)
• Person vs Organization– Anil Ambani opened Reliance Fresh (Per)– Reliance Fresh is under Anil Amabani Group Ltd
(Org)
More complex problems in NER
Issues of style, structure, domain, genre etc.– Punctuation, spelling, spacing, formatting, ….all have an
impact
Dept. of Computing and Information ScienceManchester Metropolitan UniversityManchesterUnited Kingdom
> Tell me more about Leonardo> Da Vinci
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Problems in NE Task Definition
• Category definitions are intuitively quite clear, but there are many grey areas.
• Many of these grey area are caused by metonymy.
Person vs. ArtefactOrganisation vs. LocationCompany vs. ArtefactLocation vs. Organisation
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Tagset for Named Entity
• ACE tagset is Hierarchical– ACE-Automatic Content Extraction
• The tagset – CLIA-is Hierarchical -Similar to ACE– Developed for two domains
• Tourism and Health
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TAGSET• ENAMEX
– Person• Individual
– Family name– Title
• Group– Organization
• Government• Public/private company• Religious• Non-government
– Political Party– Para military– Charitable– Association
• GPE (Geo-political Social Entity)• Media
– Location• Place
– District– City– State– Nation– Continent
• Address• Water-bodies• Landscapes• Celestial Bodies
– Manmade» Religious Places» Roads/Highways» Museum» Theme parks/Parks/Gardens» Monuments
• Facilities– Hospitals
• Institutes• Library
– Hotel/Restaurants/Lodges– Plant/Factories– Police Station/Fire Services– Public Comfort Stations– Airports– Ports– Bus-Stations
• Locomotives• Artifacts
– Implements– Ammunition– Paintings– Sculptures– Cloths– Gems & Stones
• Entertainment– Dance– Music– Drama/Cinema– Sports– Events/Exhibitions/Conferences
• Cuisine’s• Animals• Plants
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Tagset Continued
• NUMEX– Distance
• Money– Quantity– Count
• TIMEX– Time– Date– Day– Period
Tagset Counts
First Level Tags -3
Second Level -43
Third Level – 40
Total - 86
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How to Annotate• 1.ENAMEX
– 1.1 Person• 1.1.1 Individual
• These refer to names of each individual person, also includes names of fictional characters found in stories/novels etc.
Tag Structure: <ENAMEX TYPE= “PERSON” SUBTYPE_1= “INDIVIDUAL”> abc </ENAMEX>
Examples:
English:<ENAMEX TYPE= “PERSON” SUBTYPE_1= “INDIVIDUAL”>Abdul Kalam</ENAMEX>
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Annotation continued1.1.1.1 Family name
In general we find that a person name consists of a family name. Whenever an instance of individual name occurs with family name, then that part of the name, which refers to family name, must be tagged specifically with subtag “FAMILYNAME” as shown below.
Tag Structure: <ENAMEX TYPE= “PERSON” SUBTYPE_1= “INDIVIDUAL” SUBTYPE_2= “FAMILYNAME”> abc </ENAMEX>
Examples: English:<ENAMEX TYPE=”PERSON” SUBTYPE_1=”INDIVIDUAL”> Lalu
Prasad<ENAMEX TYPE= “PERSON” SUBTYPE_1= “INDIVIDUAL” SUBTYPE_2= “FAMILYNAME”>Yadav</ENAMEX></ENAMEX>
NE Types
NE TYPES
ENAMEX
NUMEX
TIMEX
The Named entity hierarchy is divided into three major classes Entity
Name, Time and Numerical expressions.
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Entity Types
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Persons are entities limited to humans. A person may be a single
individual or a group. Individual refer to names of each individual person.
Group refers to set of individual
Location entities are limited to geographical entities such as geographical
areas like names of countries, cities, continents and landmasses, bodies of
water, and geological formations.
Organization entities are limited to corporations, agencies, and other
groups of people defined by an established organizational structure
Entity Name Types
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En: [Sita]PERSON is working at [HCL]ORGANIZATION , which is in [Chennai] LOCATION
Ta: [Seetha] PERSON [chennaiyilrukkira] LOCATION [HCLlil] ORGANIZATION
En: Sita Chennai HCL
velaiseikirAl.
Working Ml: [Seetha] PERSON [chennaiyillula] LOCATION [HCLlil] ORGANIZATION
En: Sita Chennai HCL
jolicheyyunnu.
Working Hi: [Seetha] PERSON [HCL] ORGANIZATION main kaam kar raha hai, jo
En: Sita HCL work is which
[chennai] LOCATION main hain.
Chennai in
Examples for Entity Name Types
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Facilities are limited to buildings and other permanent man-made structures
and real estate improvements like hospitals, airport, colleges, libraries etc.
En: [Appolo Hospital] FACILITY is in Chennai LOCATION
Ta: [Appallo maruthuvamanAi]FACILITY [Chennaiyil]LOCATION
irukkirathu
Ml: [Appolo Asupathri]FACILITY [chennaiyil]LOCATION aaN
Hi: [Appolo aspathaal]FACILITY [chennai]LOCATION mein haim.
Entity Name Types
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A locomotive entity is a physical device primarily designed to move an object from one location to another, by carrying, pulling, or pushing the transported object.
En: [Ananthapuri Express]LOCOMOTIVE departs from [Chennai] LOCATION at
[7.30pm] Time.
Hi: [Ananthapuri express] LOCOMOTIVE [Chennai] LOCATION se [rAth 7.30] TIME ko
ravana hoga
Ml: [Ananthapuri eksprass] LOCOMOTIVE [chennaiyilninn] LOCATION [raathri 7.30
maNikk] TIME puRappetum.
Ta: [Ananthapuri viraivu rayil] LOCOMOTIVE [chennaiyilirunthu] LOCATION [iRavu
7.30 maNikku] TIME puRappatukirathu
Entity Name Types
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Artifact entities are objects or things, produced or shaped by human craft,
such
as tools, weapons/ammunition, art paintings, clothes, ornaments, medicines
En: [Vinayaga Statue] ARTIFACT is looking beautiful
Ta: [Vinayakarin Silai] ARTIFACT pArpatharkku alakAkAkairukkirathu
Ml: [ganapathi vigraham]ARTIFACT baMgiyaayi irikkunnu.
Hi: [Vinayaka moorthi] ARTIFACT achi lagh rahi haim.
Entity Name Types
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Entertainment entities denote activities, which are diverting and hold human
attention or interest, giving pleasure, happiness, amusement especially
performance of some kind such as dance, music, sports, events.
En: [Flower Exhibition] ENTERTAINMENT is held at [Hyderabad]LOCATION
Ta: [Malar kankAtchi] ENTERTAINMENT [hyderabaadil]LOCATION Nadaiperukirathu
Ml: [pushpa pradarshanam] ENTERTAINMENT [hyderabaadil] LOCATION natakkunnu
Hi: [phool pradarshnii] ENTERTAINMENT [hyderabad] LOCATION meN Ayojith kiyaa
jAthA hai
Entity Name Types
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Materials refer to the names of food items, cuisines, chemicals and
cosmetics
En: [Honey]MATERIALS is good for face
Ta: [ThEn]MATERIALS mukaththiRku nallathu
Ml: [Madhu] MATERIALS mukaththinu nallathAN
Hi: [Shahad] MATERIALS chehare ke liye achcha hai.
Entity Name Types
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ORGANISMS: These are the names of different animal species including
birds, reptiles, viruses, bacteria and names of herbs, medicinal plants, shrubs,
trees, fruits, flowers etc.
En: [Peacock] ORGANISM is the national bird of [India] LOCATION
Ta: [Mayil] ORGANISM [InthiyAvin] LOCATION thEciyappaRavai Akum.
Ml: [Mayil] ORGANISM [indyayute] LOCATION raashtrapakshi AN.
Hi: [Mor] ORGANISM [bhaarath] LOCATION kaa raashtrIya pakshi hai.
Entity Name Types
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Disease: Names of disease, symptoms, diagonisis and treatment are comes
under this type.
En: Smoking Causes [Cancer] DISEASE
Ta: PukaippithithalAl [puRRuNoi] DISEASE varukiRathu
Ml : pukavali [aRbhudham] DISEASE uNtAkkunnu
Hi: dhumrapan [kaansar] DISEASE ka kaaraN banaatha hai.
Entity Name Types
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Numerical Expressions
NUMEX
DISTANCE
QUANTITY
COUNT
MONEY
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Distance refers to the distance measures such as kilometers, Centimeters, meters, acres, feet etc.
Example: 10 cm., twenty feet, 15 hectares Money specifies the different currency value such as rupee, euro, Dinar,
dollar etc.
Example: Rs. 1000, 250 Euro, $160 Count denotes the number (or counts) of Items/ articles/things etc.
Example: 5 subjects, 12 students, 20 books Quantity measurements like liters, tons, grams, volts etc. are comes under
this category.
Example: 20 litres, 22 kg, 50g, 100 volts
Numerical Expressions
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Time Expressions
TIMEX
MONTH DATETIME YEAR
PERIODDAY SPECIAL DAY
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Temporal expressions are the entities refers to time, date, year, month and day Time: These refer to expressions of time, includes different forms of expressing time. This also includes Hours, minutes and seconds. Example
5’o clock in the morning 9.30 a.m.
Evening 6.30 p.m. Date: This refers to expressions of Date such as 13/12/2001 etc in different forms. This also includes month, date and year Example
August 15 1947 1956 September 11
Temporal Expressions
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Day: These are expressions, which convey days in a year. Also it can include
days occurring weekly /fortnightly/ monthly /quarterly/ biennial etc.
ExampleSundayTomorrowTodayYesterday
Special Day: refers to special days in a year
ExampleGandhi JayanthiRama Navami
Temporal Expressions
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Period: refers to expressions, which express duration of time or
time periods or time intervals.
Example 17 th century 10 minutes 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. One year
Temporal Expressions
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Methodologies
Methods:
1)Rule Based
2)Machine Learning
Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
Naïve Bayes Classifier
Maximum Entropy Markov Model (MEMM)
Conditional random Fields (CRF)
4) Hybrid Approach
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Following are the major challenges encountering in Indian Languages.AgglutinationAmbiguity
Between Proper and common nounsBetween named entities
Lack of Capitalization
Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Agglutination
In Dravidian languages, words consist of a lexical root to which one or more
affixes are attached.
Example in Tamil:
1) Ta: Ramanaiththavira
(otherthan Raman)
2) Ta: Cevvaiyandru
(On Tuesday)
3) Ta: Inthiyavilllula
(In India)
4) Ta: KannanaippaRRikkondu
(hold onto Kannan)
Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Example in Malayalam:
1) Ml: hemayiluNtaayirunna
(that which Hema have)
2) Ml: Chennaiyilethunna
(reach in Chennai)
3) Ml: arabikatalinaBimukhamaayi
(towards the arabian sea)
4) Ml: kaaSiyilekkozhukunna
( flowing towards kaaSi)
Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Ambiguity Comparatively Indian languages suffer more due to the ambiguity that
exists between common & proper nouns and between named entities itself. In some cases same word can refer to different named entity types. Those instances can recognized by contextual information.
Examples:Hi: Akash - Person name and SkyHi: Sooraj - Person name and SunHi: Chaanth – Moon and SilverHi: Aam – Mango and CommonMl: Roopa – Person name and RupeeMl: Madhu – Person name and HoneyMl: Mala – Person name and Garland
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Ta: Thinkal - Day and Month
Ta: Malar - Person name and Flower
Ta: Chevvai - Day and planet
Ta: Shakthi – Person name and Power
Ta: MAlai – Evening and Garland
Ta & Ml: Velli – Silver, Planet, Day
Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Spell Variation: Due to the different writing styles same entity is
represented in various word forms. In Tamil, sanskirit letters
such as “ja”, “sha”, “sri” “Ha” are replaced by “sa”,“ciri”, “ka”
Example:
Roja can be written as Rosa
Srimathi - cirimathi
Raja - rasa
ShajahAn - sajakAn
Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Lack of Capitalization In English and some other European languages capitalization is considered
as the important feature to identify proper noun. It plays a major role in NE identification. Unlike English capitalization concept is not found in Indian languages.
Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Nested Entities: Refers to the named entities which occurs within another
named entities. Also called as embedded entities.
Ta: [[Mathurai] LOCATION [MeenAtchi Amman]PERSON Koyil]RELPLACE
En: Mathurai Meenatchi Amman Temple
Ml: [[Nittoor] PERSON Srinivasa rao] PERSON
En : Nitoor Srinivasa rao
Hi: [[Rajeev] PERSON MArg] ROAD
En : Rajeev Road
Nested Entities
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Approaches in Named Entity Resolution
• Dictionary Look-up
• Rule based ( Using lexical, contextual and morphological information)
• Maximum entropy theory based
• Hidden Markov Model
• Conditional Random Fields
• Hybrid methods (Statistical+ Linguistics)
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Dictionary (Gazetteers) Look-up Approach
• Uses Dictionaries for identifying NERs ( Gazetteers)
• Gazetteer contains NEs from all domains• Advantage
– Very simple approach – Gives very high precision
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Disadvantages of Dictionary Approach
• Preparation of exhaustive dictionary is a tedious and expensive process.
• The dictionary should cover the different spellings of the same place.
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Rule Based Approach• Rule Based System
– Needs more rules to tag all kinds of NE
• Advantages:– Rich and expressive rules– Good results
• Disadvantages:– Requires huge experience and grammatical knowledge– Experts to craft rules are expensive – Highly domain specific ( not portable to a new domain)
General difficulties“ Italy's business world was rocked by the
announcement last Thursday that Mr. Verdi would leave his job as vice-president of Music Masters of Milan, Inc. to become operations director of Arthur Andersen".
• Capitalization useless for first word• S not part of name "Italy"• Date is "last Thursday" not "Thursday"• Milan is location, not organization• Arthur Andersen is organization, not person
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Rules success and failureTitle Capitalized_Word Title Person_Name
Correct: Mr. JonesIncorrect: Mrs. Field's Cookies (corporation)
Month_name number_less_than_32 DateCorrect: February 28 Incorrect: Long March 3 (a Chinese Rocket)
From Date to Date DateCorrect: from August 3 to August 9Incorrect: I moved my trip from April to June (twoseparate dates)
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Statistical based approach
• Need to identify features• Feature selection has to be correct for all
types of NE• Development of Tagged Corpus• The Corpus should contain all types of tags in
appropriate number• Domain based corpus has to be generated.
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Automated approaches
Address drawbacks of hand-coded systemAutomated training• Human-annotated (with desired outputstandards) training data• Annotation requires less effort and expertisethan hand-coding rules• Annotation accuracy• Two annotators for checking, third annotator toresolve disputes
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Literature Survey
1) Named Entity Recognition was one of the tasks defined in Message Understanding Conference(MUC) 6.
2) A survey on Named Entity Recognition was done by David Nadeau (2007).3) Techniques used include:
- rule based technique by Krupka (1998)- using maximum entropy by Borthwick (1998)- using Hidden Markov Model by Bikel (1997)- bootstrapping approach using concept based seeds (Niu et al., 2003)- hybrid approaches such as rule based tagging for certain entities such as date,
time, percentage and maximum entropy based approach for entities like location and organization (Rohini et al.,2000)
4) The Stanford NER software (Finkel et al., 2005), uses linear chain CRFs in their NER engine. Here they identify three classes of NERs viz., Person, Organization and Location.
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Arulmozhi, P. and Sobha, L. (2006). HMM-based Part of Speech Tagger for Relatively Free Word Order Language. Advances in Natural Language Processing, Research in Computing
Science Journal, Mexico Volume18, pp. 37-48. Bikel, D. M. Miller, S. Schwartz, R. Weischedel, R. (1997). Nymble: A high-performance
learning name-finder. In Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing. pp. 194201.
Borthwick, A. Sterling, J. Agichtein, E. and Grishman, R. (1998). Description of the MENE named Entity System. In Seventh Machine Understanding Conference (MUC-7).
Chen, W. Zhang, Y. and Isahara, H. (2006). Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Conditional Random Fields. In Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Sydney. pp.118-121.
Ekbal, A. Bandyopadhyay, S. (2009). A Conditional Random Field Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Bengali and Hindi. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2(1). pp.1-44.
References
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Finkel, J. N. Grenager, T. and Manning, C. (2005). Incorporating Non-local Information into Information Extraction Systems by Gibbs Sampling. In 43nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005). pp. 363-370.
Finkel, J. Dingare, S. Nguyen, H. Nissim, M. Sinclair, G. and Manning, C. (2004). Exploiting Context for Biomedical Entity Recognition: from Syntax to the Web. In Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications, (NLPBA), Geneva, Switzerland.
Gali, K. Surana, H. Vaidya, A. Shishtla, P. Sharma, D. M. (2008). Aggregating Machine Learning and Rule Based Heuristics for Named Entity Recognition. In Workshop on NER for South and South East Asian Languages, IJCNLP-08, Hyderabad, India.
Kumar, K. N. Santosh, G. S. K. Varma, V. (2011). A Language-Independent Approach to Identify the Named Entities in under-resourced languages and Clustering Multilingual Documents. In International Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Lafferty, J. McCallum, A. Pereira, F. (2001). Conditional Random Fields for segmenting and labeling sequence data. In ICML-01, pp. 282-289.
Loinaz, I.A. Uriarte, O. A. Ramos, N. E. Castro, M. I. F. D (2006). Lessons from the Development of Named Entity Recognizer for Basque. Natural Language Processing, 36. pp. 25 – 37.
McCallum, A. and Li, W. (2003). Early Results for Named Entity Recognition with Conditional Random Fields, Feature Induction and Web-Enhanced Lexicons. In Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL).
References
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Nadeau, David and Sekine, S. (2007) A survey of named entity recognition and classification. Linguisticae Investigationes 30(1). pp.3–26.
Niu, C. Li, W. Ding, J. Srihari, R. K. (2003). Bootstrapping for Named Entity Tagging using Concept-based Seeds. In HLT-NAACL’03, Companion Volume, Edmonton, AT. pp.73-75.
Pandian, S. Lakshmana, Geetha, T. V. and Krishna. (2007). Named Entity Recognition in Tamil using Context-cues and the E-M algorithm. In the Proceedings of the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pune, India. pp. 1951 -1958.
Sasidhar, B., Yohan, P.M., Babu, V.A., Govarhan, A.(2011). A Survey on Named Entity Recognition in Indian Languages with particular reference to Telugu. J. International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Volume. 8, pp. 1694-0814 .
Sobha, L., Vijay Sundar Ram. R. (2006). "Noun Phrase Chunker for Tamil", In Proceedings of Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, pp 194-198.
Srihari, R.K. Niu, C. Yu, L. (2000). A Hybrid Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Indian Languages. In 6th Applied Natural Language Conference, pp. 247-254
Gupta, S. and Bhattacharyya, P. (2010). Think globally, apply locally: using distributional characteristics for Hindi named entity identification. In 2010 Named Entities Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Vijayakrishna, R. and Sobha, L. (2008). Domain focused Named Entity for Tamil using Conditional Random Fields. In IJNLP-08 workshop on NER for South and South East Asian Languages, Hyderabad, India. pp. 59-66
References
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Literature Survey
Indian Languages:5) Named Entity recognition for Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu and Urdu (some of the major Indian languages) were addressed as a shared task in the NERSSEAL workshop of IJCNLP. The tagset used here consisted of 12 tags.
6) Vijayakrishna & Sobha (2008) worked on Domain focused Tamil Named Entity Recognizer for Tourism domain using CRF. It handles nested tagging of named entities with a hierarchical tag set containing 106 tags. They considered root of words, POS, combined word and POS, Dictionary of named entities as features to build the system.
7) Pandian et al (2007) have built a Tamil NER system using contextual cues and E-M algorithm.
8) The NER system (Gali et al., 2008) build for NERSSEAL-2008 shared task which combines the machine learning techniques with language specific heuristics. The system has been tested on five languages such as Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Oriya using CRF followed by post processing which involves some heuristics.
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Thank you
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