Clique-based clustering for improving named entity recognition systems

  • Authors:
  • Julien Ah-Pine;Guillaume Jacquet

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France;Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France

  • Venue:
  • EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We propose a system which builds, in a semi-supervised manner, a resource that aims at helping a NER system to annotate corpus-specific named entities. This system is based on a distributional approach which uses syntactic dependencies for measuring similarities between named entities. The specificity of the presented method however, is to combine a clique-based approach and a clustering technique that amounts to a soft clustering method. Our experiments show that the resource constructed by using this clique-based clustering system allows to improve different NER systems.