Eric Nichols

Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM-CNNs

2016 · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Named entity recognition is a challenging task that has traditionally required large amounts of knowledge in the form of feature engineering and lexicons to achieve high performance. In this paper, we present a novel neural …

Results of the WNUT2017 Shared Task on Novel and Emerging Entity Recognition

2017

This shared task focuses on identifying unusual, previously-unseen entities in the context of emerging discussions. Named entities form the basis of many modern approaches to other tasks (like event clustering and summarization), but recall on …