Dominic Seyler


2018

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A Study of the Importance of External Knowledge in the Named Entity Recognition Task
Dominic Seyler | Tatiana Dembelova | Luciano Del Corro | Johannes Hoffart | Gerhard Weikum
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

In this work, we discuss the importance of external knowledge for performing Named Entity Recognition (NER). We present a novel modular framework that divides the knowledge into four categories according to the depth of knowledge they convey. Each category consists of a set of features automatically generated from different information sources, such as a knowledge-base, a list of names, or document-specific semantic annotations. Further, we show the effects on performance when incrementally adding deeper knowledge and discuss effectiveness/efficiency trade-offs.