2020 ACL ACL 2020

Bootstrapping Named Entity Recognition in E-Commerce with Positive Unlabeled Learning

Abstract

AbstractIn this work, we introduce a bootstrapped, iterative NER model that integrates a PU learning algorithm for recognizing named entities in a low-resource setting. Our approach combines dictionary-based labeling with syntactically-informed label expansion to efficiently enrich the seed dictionaries. Experimental results on a dataset of manually annotated e-commerce product descriptions demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — dictionary-based labeling
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Speech & Audio