Proposal for an extension of traditional named entities: from guidelines to evaluation, an overview

  • Authors:
  • Cyril Grouin;Sophie Rosset;Pierre Zweigenbaum;Karën Fort;Olivier Galibert;Ludovic Quintard

  • Affiliations:
  • LIMSI-CNRS, France;LIMSI-CNRS, France;LIMSI-CNRS, France;INIST-CNRS, France and LIPN, France;LNE, France;LNE, France

  • Venue:
  • LAW V '11 Proceedings of the 5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Within the framework of the construction of a fact database, we defined guidelines to extract named entities, using a taxonomy based on an extension of the usual named entities definition. We thus defined new types of entities with broader coverage including substantive-based expressions. These extended named entities are hierarchical (with types and components) and compositional (with recursive type inclusion and metonymy annotation). Human annotators used these guidelines to annotate a 1.3M word broadcast news corpus in French. This article presents the definition and novelty of extended named entity annotation guidelines, the human annotation of a global corpus and of a mini reference corpus, and the evaluation of annotations through the computation of inter-annotator agreements. Finally, we discuss our approach and the computed results, and outline further work.