An agent-based approach to Chinese named entity recognition

  • Authors:
  • Shiren Ye;Tat-Seng Chua;Liu Jimin

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Chinese NE (Named Entity) recognition is a difficult problem because of the uncertainty in word segmentation and flexibility in language structure. This paper proposes the use of a rationality model in a multi-agent framework to tackle this problem. We employ a greedy strategy and use the NE rationality model to evaluate and detect all possible NEs in the text. We then treat the process of selecting the best possible NEs as a multi-agent negotiation problem. The resulting system is robust and is able to handle different types of NE effectively. Our test on the MET-2 test corpus indicates that our system is able to achieve high F1 values of above 92% on all NE types.