Training a named entity recognizer on the web

  • Authors:
  • David Urbansky;James A. Thom;Daniel Schuster;Alexander Schill

  • Affiliations:
  • Dresden University of Technology, RMIT University;Dresden University of Technology, RMIT University;Dresden University of Technology, RMIT University;Dresden University of Technology, RMIT University

  • Venue:
  • WISE'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web information system engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an approach for training a Named Entity Recognizer (NER) from a set of seed entities on the web. Creating training data for NERs is tedious, time consuming, and becomes more difficult with a growing set of entity types that should be learned and recognized. Named Entity Recognition is a building block in natural language processing and is widely used in fields such as question answering, tagging, and information retrieval. Our NER can be trained on a set of entity names of different types and can be extended whenever a new entity type should be recognized. This feature increases the practical applications of the NER.