Improving named entity recognition for Chinese social media with word segmentation representation learning

54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 149-155

  Peng, Nanyun ^a   Dredze, Mark ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Bloomberg LP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

LINGUISTIC FEATURES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NEURAL MODELS; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATE OF THE ART; WORD SEGMENTATION; WORD SEGMENTATION SYSTEMS;

LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY;

EID: 85016571065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/p16-2025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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