An Overview of Named Entity Recognition

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is essential for some Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Previous researchers gave a survey of NER in statistical machine learning era, however, research on NER has already changed a lot in recent decade. On the one hand, more and more NER systems adopt deep learning, transfer learning, knowledge base and other methods. On the other hand, multilingual and low resource languages NER researches increase rapidly. To reflect these changes, we here give an overview of NER based on 162 papers of NLP related conferences from 1996 to 2017. In this survey, we discuss two main aspects of NER research - target languages and technical approaches with statistical analysis. Finally, we summarize some conclusions and explore potential future issues in NER research.

[1]  Wei Li,et al.  Early results for Named Entity Recognition with Conditional Random Fields, Feature Induction and Web-Enhanced Lexicons , 2003, CoNLL.

[2]  Gurpreet Singh Lehal,et al.  Named Entity Recognition System for Urdu , 2012, COLING.

[3]  Ralph Grishman,et al.  NYU: Description of the MENE Named Entity System as Used in MUC-7 , 1998, MUC.

[4]  Reyyan Yeniterzi.  Exploiting Morphology in Turkish Named Entity Recognition System , 2011, ACL.

[5]  Tomoya Iwakura.  A Named Entity Recognition Method using Rules Acquired from Unlabeled Data , 2011, RANLP.

[6]  James Hammerton,et al.  Named Entity Recognition with Long Short-Term Memory , 2003, CoNLL.

[7]  Ayah Zirikly,et al.  Cross-lingual Transfer of Named Entity Recognizers without Parallel Corpora , 2015, ACL.

[8]  Marine Carpuat,et al.  A Stacked, Voted, Stacked Model for Named Entity Recognition , 2003, CoNLL.

[9]  Kashif Riaz,et al.  Rule-Based Named Entity Recognition in Urdu , 2010, NEWS@ACL.

[10]  Yuji Matsumoto,et al.  Japanese Named Entity Extraction with Redundant Morphological Analysis , 2003, NAACL.

[11]  Patrick Schone,et al.  Mining Wiki Resources for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition , 2008, ACL.

[12]  Richard M. Schwartz,et al.  Nymble: a High-Performance Learning Name-finder , 1997, ANLP.

[13]  Sangameshwar Patil,et al.  Named Entity Extraction using Information Distance , 2013, IJCNLP.

[14]  Micha Elsner,et al.  Structured Generative Models for Unsupervised Named-Entity Clustering , 2009, HLT-NAACL.

[15]  Timothy Baldwin,et al.  Bootstrapped Text-level Named Entity Recognition for Literature , 2016, ACL.

[16]  Hui Jiang,et al.  A Local Detection Approach for Named Entity Recognition and Mention Detection , 2017, ACL.

[17]  Satoshi Sekine,et al.  A survey of named entity recognition and classification , 2007 .

[18]  David D. Palmer,et al.  A Statistical Profile of the Named Entity Task , 1997, ANLP.

[19]  Ralph Grishman,et al.  Message Understanding Conference- 6: A Brief History , 1996, COLING.

[20]  Sriharsha Veeramachaneni,et al.  A Simple Semi-supervised Algorithm For Named Entity Recognition , 2009, HLT-NAACL 2009.

[21]  Marine Carpuat,et al.  Boosting for Named Entity Recognition , 2002, CoNLL.

[22]  Satoshi Sekine,et al.  Description of the Japanese NE System Used for MET-2 , 1998, MUC.

[23]  Guillaume Lample,et al.  Neural Architectures for Named Entity Recognition , 2016, NAACL.

[24]  Dilek Küçük,et al.  Experiments to Improve Named Entity Recognition on Turkish Tweets , 2014, ArXiv.

[25]  Aurore De Amaral.  Rule-based Named Entity Extraction For Ontology Population , 2013, RANLP.

[26]  Xian Wu,et al.  Domain Adaptation with Latent Semantic Association for Named Entity Recognition , 2009, NAACL.

[27]  Victor Guimar.  Boosting Named Entity Recognition with Neural Character Embeddings , 2015 .

[28]  Jakub Piskorski,et al.  On Named Entity Recognition in Targeted Twitter Streams in Polish , 2013, BSNLP@ACL.

[29]  Tiejun Zhao,et al.  Using Deep Belief Nets for Chinese Named Entity Categorization , 2010, NEWS@ACL.

[30]  Eric Nichols,et al.  Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM-CNNs , 2015, TACL.

[31]  Jian Ni,et al.  Weakly Supervised Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition via Effective Annotation and Representation Projection , 2017, ACL.

[32]  Wanxiang Che,et al.  Joint Word Alignment and Bilingual Named Entity Recognition Using Dual Decomposition , 2013, ACL.

[33]  Heng Ji,et al.  Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages , 2017, ACL.

[34]  Chengqing Zong,et al.  On Jointly Recognizing and Aligning Bilingual Named Entities , 2010, ACL.

[35]  Vasudeva Varma,et al.  Language Independent Named Entity Identification using Wikipedia , 2012 .