Named Entity Recognition
Sobha Lalitha Devi
AU-KBC Research Centre
Chennai
Named Entity(NE) Recognition
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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>.
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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 Reference
Proper names refer to an object by virtue of a causal connection
with 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)
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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 Science
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester
United 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. Artefact
Organisation vs. Location
Company vs. Artefact
Location 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
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ENAMEX
– Person
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Individual
– Family name
– Title
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Organization
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Political Party
Para military
Charitable
Association
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GPE (Geo-political Social Entity)
Media
Location
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Place
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Government
Public/private company
Religious
Non-government
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Group
District
City
State
Nation
Continent
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Address
Water-bodies
Landscapes
Celestial Bodies
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– 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
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Plants
Tagset Continued
• NUMEX
– Distance
• Money
– Quantity
– Count
• TIMEX
– Time
– Date
– Day
– Period
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Tagset Counts
First Level Tags -3
Second Level
-43
Third Level
– 40
Total
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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 continued
1.1.1.1 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>
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NE Types
The Named entity hierarchy is divided into three major classes Entity
Name, Time and Numerical expressions.
ENAMEX
NE TYPES
NUMEX
TIMEX
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Entity Types
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Entity Name 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
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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.
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Organization entities are limited to corporations, agencies, and other
groups of people defined by an established organizational structure
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Examples for 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
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Entity Name Types
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.
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Entity Name Types
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
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Entity Name Types
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.
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Entity Name Types
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
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Entity Name Types
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.
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Entity Name Types
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.
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Entity Name Types
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.
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Numerical Expressions
DISTANCE
QUANTITY
NUMEX
MONEY
COUNT
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Numerical Expressions
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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
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Time Expressions
TIMEX
DAY
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MONTH
TIME
PERIOD
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SPECIAL DAY
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Temporal Expressions
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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
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5’o clock in the morning
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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
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August 15 1947
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1956
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September 11
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Temporal Expressions
Day: These are expressions, which convey days in a year. Also it can include
days occurring weekly /fortnightly/ monthly /quarterly/ biennial etc.
Example
Sunday
Tomorrow
Today
Yesterday
Special Day: refers to special days in a year
Example
Gandhi Jayanthi
Rama Navami
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Temporal Expressions
Period: refers to expressions, which express duration of time or
time periods or time intervals.
Example
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17 th century
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10 minutes
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10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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One year
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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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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
Following are the major challenges encountering in Indian
Languages.
 Agglutination
 Ambiguity
Between Proper and common nouns
Between named entities
 Lack of Capitalization
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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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)
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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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)
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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Ambiguity
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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.
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Examples:
Hi: Akash
- Person name and Sky
Hi:
Sooraj - Person name and Sun
Hi:
Chaanth – Moon and Silver
Hi:
Aam – Mango and Common
Ml:
Roopa – Person name and Rupee
Ml:
Madhu – Person name and Honey
Ml:
Mala – Person name and Garland
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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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Ta:
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Ta: Malar - Person name and Flower
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Ta: Chevvai - Day and planet
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Ta: Shakthi – Person name and Power
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Ta: MAlai – Evening and Garland
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Ta & Ml: Velli – Silver, Planet, Day
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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
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
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cirimathi
Raja
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rasa
ShajahAn
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sajakAn
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Challenges of NER in Indian Languages
Lack of Capitalization
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In English and some other European languages capitalization is considered
as the important feature to identify proper noun.
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It plays a major role in NE identification.
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Unlike English capitalization concept is not found in Indian languages.
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Nested Entities
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
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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)
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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 failure
Title Capitalized_Word Title Person_Name
Correct: Mr. Jones
Incorrect: Mrs. Field's Cookies (corporation)
Month_name number_less_than_32 Date
Correct: February 28
Incorrect: Long March 3 (a Chinese Rocket)
From Date to Date Date
Correct: from August 3 to August 9
Incorrect: I moved my trip from April to June (two
separate 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 system
Automated training
• Human-annotated (with desired output
standards) training data
• Annotation requires less effort and expertise
than hand-coding rules
• Annotation accuracy
• Two annotators for checking, third annotator to
resolve 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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References
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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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