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Good AND Named Entity Recognition

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Named Entity Recognition and the Road to Deep Learning (2017)

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> the old
and the new-style NLP are not diametrically
opposed: just as it is possible (and useful!) to
incorporate neural-network features into a CRF,
CRFs have influenced some of the best deep
learning models for sequence labelling

This blog post go through the ways of doing NER, starting with CRF:

- When you develop a CRF,
a lot of time goes into finding feature functions (Does a word start with a capital? Is it uppercase? Is it a digit?...) 
- Pb: semantic similarity between words. 
- Gazetteers: lists with names of people, locations and organizations that are known in advance.
- feed Word Embeddings to a CRF: one way is to cluster a set
of word embeddings by distributional similarity, and
provide the CRF with the cluster IDs of a token and its
context words.
- Use word and character based embeddings
- LSTM not good enough -> biLSTM
- **biLSTM predict all labels independently of each other -> add a CRF layer** which outputs a matrix of transition scores between two states: dynamic programming can help find the optimal tag sequence for the sentence

2018-05-20 About

A Spectrometry of Linked Data

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Entity mining is still a troublesome open problem. In past years many approaches allowed to automate the generation of equivalence links between references using schema matching or various heuristics based on the recognition of similar property values. In contrast, few of them considered the analysis of the network of equivalence links (“equivalence network”) as an indication of the likelihood and strength of the equivalence.

Could a URI reference (URIRef) be thought as exactly “attached” to its referent? Could it make sense to talk about entity “identifiers” or would it be better to talk about more ambiguous “references”, i.e., placeholders for any model that satisfies the formal semantics of the Semantic Web (Hayes)? Booth observes that the aforementioned question, which in the past has been often regarded as fundamental in the debate about identity on the Web, is relatively unimportant. As long as an entity, identified by whatsoever URIRef, is associated to at least one description containing machine understandable information, this information can be automatically processed and used by applications.

2012-04-16 About