Named entity recognition in tweets: an experimental study

  • Authors:
  • Alan Ritter;Sam Clark; Mausam;Oren Etzioni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

People tweet more than 100 Million times daily, yielding a noisy, informal, but sometimes informative corpus of 140-character messages that mirrors the zeitgeist in an unprecedented manner. The performance of standard NLP tools is severely degraded on tweets. This paper addresses this issue by re-building the NLP pipeline beginning with part-of-speech tagging, through chunking, to named-entity recognition. Our novel T-ner system doubles F1 score compared with the Stanford NER system. T-ner leverages the redundancy inherent in tweets to achieve this performance, using LabeledLDA to exploit Freebase dictionaries as a source of distant supervision. LabeledLDA outperforms co-training, increasing F1 by 25% over ten common entity types. Our NLP tools are available at: http://github.com/aritter/twitter_nlp