Passive-Aggressive Sequence Labeling with Discriminative Post-Editing for Recognising Person Entities in Tweets
Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva · 2014
Recognising entities in social media text is difficult.NER on newswire text is conventionally cast as a sequence labeling problem.This makes implicit assumptions regarding its textual structure.Social media text is rich in disfluency and often has poor or noisy structure, and intuitively does not always satisfy these assumptions.We explore noise-tolerant methods for sequence labeling and apply discriminative post-editing to exceed state-of-the-art performance for person recognition in tweets, reaching an F1 of 84%.