Named Entity Recognition on Code-Mixed Cross-Script Social Media Content

Authors

  • Somnath Banerjee Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  • Sudip Kumar Naskar Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  • Paolo Rosso Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia
  • Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-21-4-2850

Keywords:

Named entity recognition, code-mixed cross-script, Bengali-English social media content

Abstract

Focusing on the current multilingual scenario in social media, this paper reports automatic extraction of named entities (NE) from code-mixed cross-script social media data. Our prime target is to extract NE for question answering. This paper also introduces a Bengali-English (Bn-En) code-mixedcross-script dataset for NE research and proposes domain specific taxonomies for NE. We used formal as well as informal language-specific features to prepare the classification models and employed four machine learning algorithms (Conditional Random Fields, Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm, Support Vector Machine and Maximum Entropy Markov Model) for the NE recognition (NER) task. In this study, Bengali is considered as the native language while English is considered as the non-native language. However, the approach presented in this paper is generic in nature and could be used for any other code-mixed dataset. The classification models based on CRF and SVM performed well among the classifiers.

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Published

2017-12-23

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 4 (2017): Advances in Human Language Technologies (Guest Editor: A. Gelbukh)

Section

Articles of the Thematic Issue

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