ZH-NER: Chinese Named Entity Recognition with Adversarial Multi-task Learning and Self-Attentions

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Abstract

NER is challenging because of the semantic ambiguities in academic literature, especially for non-Latin languages. Besides, recognizing Chinese named entities needs to consider word boundary information, as words contained in Chinese texts are not separated with spaces. Leveraging word boundary information could help to determine entity boundaries and thus improve entity recognition performance. In this paper, we propose to combine word boundary information and semantic information for named entity recognition based on multi-task adversarial learning. We learn common shared boundary information of entities from multiple kinds of tasks, including Chinese word segmentation (CWS), part-of-speech (POS) tagging and entity recognition, with adversarial learning. We learn task-specific semantic information of words from these tasks, and combine the learned boundary information with the semantic information to improve entity recognition, with multi-task learning. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate that our model achieves considerable performance improvements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Systems for Advanced Applications - 26th International Conference, DASFAA 2021, Proceedings
EditorsChristian S. Jensen, Ee-Peng Lim, De-Nian Yang, Chia-Hui Chang, Jianliang Xu, Wen-Chih Peng, Jen-Wei Huang, Chih-Ya Shen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages603-611
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030731960
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 11 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12682 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2021
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period11/04/2114/04/21

Keywords

  • Adversarial learning
  • Chinese word segmentation
  • Multi-task learning
  • Named entity recognition
  • Part-of-speech tagging

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