Nested and Balanced Entity Recognition using Multi-Task Learning
Andreas Waldis,
Luca Mazzola
Abstract:Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words or of a consecutive sequence of terms, constituting the basic building blocks for communication. Mainstream ER approaches are mainly limited to flat structures, concentrating on the outermost entities while ignoring the inner ones. This paper introduces a partly-layered netwo… Show more
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