Mark Sammons

EDISON: Feature Extraction for NLP, Simplified

2016

When designing Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications that use Machine Learning (ML) techniques, feature extraction becomes a significant part of the development effort, whether developing a new application or attempting to reproduce results reported for …

On the Strength of Character Language Models for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition

2018

Character-level patterns have been widely used as features in English Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems. However, to date there has been no direct investigation of the inherent differences between name and nonname tokens in text, …