Stephen Mayhew

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, …

Cheap Translation for Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition

2017

Recent work in NLP has attempted to deal with low-resource languages but still assumed a resource level that is not present for most languages, e.g., the availability of Wikipedia in the target language. We propose …

Cross-Lingual Ability of Multilingual BERT: An Empirical Study

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent work has exhibited the surprising cross-lingual abilities of multilingual BERT (M-BERT) -- surprising since it is trained without any cross-lingual objective and with no aligned data. In this work, we provide a comprehensive study …

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

2021 · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Abstract We take a step towards addressing the under- representation of the African continent in NLP research by bringing together different stakeholders to create the first large, publicly available, high-quality dataset for named entity recognition …