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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 926-934Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2019927
Keywords
Arabic; machine learning comparison; named entity recognition; natural language processing (NLP)
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- MCyT [TIN2006-15265-C06-04, AECID-PCI B/017961/08]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [HR0011-06-C-0023]
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The Named Entity Recognition task aims at identifying and classifying Named Entities within an open-domain text. This task has been garnering significant attention recently as it has been shown to help improve the performance of many Natural Language Processing applications. In this paper, we investigate the impact of using different sets of features in three discriminative machine learning frameworks, namely, support vector machines, maximum entropy and conditional random fields for the task of Named Entity Recognition. Our language of interest is Arabic. We explore lexical, contextual and morphological features and nine data-sets of different genres and annotations. We measure the impact of the different features in isolation and incrementally combine them in order to evaluate the robustness to noise of each approach. We achieve the highest performance using a combination of 15 features in conditional random fields using Broadcast News data (F(beta=1) = 83.34).
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