A Feature-Rich Vietnamese Named Entity Recognition Model

Authors

  • Pham Quang Nhat Minh Alt Vietnam Co.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-26-3-4353

Keywords:

Feature selection, vietnamese, named entity recognition

Abstract

In this paper, we present a feature-based named entity recognition (NER) model that achieves the start-of-the-art accuracy for Vietnamese language. We combine word, word-shape features, PoS, chunk, Brown-cluster-based features, and word-embedding-based features in the Conditional Random Fields (CRF) model. We also explore the effects of word segmentation, PoS tagging, and chunking results of many popular Vietnamese NLP toolkits on the accuracy of the proposed feature-based NER model. Up to now, our work is the first work that systematically performs an extrinsic evaluation of basic Vietnamese NLP toolkits on the downstream NER task. Experimental results show that while automatically-generated word segmentation is useful, PoS and chunking information generated by Vietnamese NLP tools does not show their benefits for the proposed feature-based NER model.

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Published

2022-08-31

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 3 (2022): 26(3) 2022

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