Gustavo Aguilar

A Multi-task Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Social Media Data

2017

Named Entity Recognition for social media data is challenging because of its inherent noisiness. In addition to improper grammatical structures, it contains spelling inconsistencies and numerous informal abbreviations. We propose a novel multi-task approach by …

Named Entity Recognition on Code-Switched Data: Overview of the CALCS 2018 Shared Task

2018

In the third shared task of the Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching (CALCS) workshop, we focus on Named Entity Recognition (NER) on code-switched social-media data. We divide the shared task into two competitions based on …