Leon Derczynski

Generalisation in named entity recognition: A quantitative analysis

2017 · Computer Speech & Language

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This paper aims to quantify how this diversity …

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 …