Title

How feasible is the reuse of grammars for Named Entity Recognition?

Authors

Katerina Pastra (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)

Diana Maynard (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)

Oana Hamza (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)

Hamish Cunningham (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)

Yorick Wilks (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)

Session

WO15: Semantic Tagging

Abstract

In this paper, we argue that vital time is wasted in creating resources from scratch, instead of reusing existing grammars for NE recognition. We discuss three possible reasons for this and present our corresponding empirical results, that ground our argument and encourage more widespread use of valuable existing resources. 

Keywords

Information extraction, Named entity recognition, Reusability, Language resources, Evaluation

Full Paper

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