WiNER: A Wikipedia Annotated Corpus for Named Entity Recognition

Abbas Ghaddar, Phillippe Langlais


Abstract
We revisit the idea of mining Wikipedia in order to generate named-entity annotations. We propose a new methodology that we applied to English Wikipedia to build WiNER, a large, high quality, annotated corpus. We evaluate its usefulness on 6 NER tasks, comparing 4 popular state-of-the art approaches. We show that LSTM-CRF is the approach that benefits the most from our corpus. We report impressive gains with this model when using a small portion of WiNER on top of the CONLL training material. Last, we propose a simple but efficient method for exploiting the full range of WiNER, leading to further improvements.
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I17-1042
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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November
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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413–422
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Abbas Ghaddar and Phillippe Langlais. 2017. WiNER: A Wikipedia Annotated Corpus for Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 413–422, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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