HardEval: Focusing on Challenging Tokens to Assess Robustness of NER (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Named entity recognition (NER) systems are often evaluated on human annotations . a new evaluation method focuses on subsets of tokens that represent specific sources of errors . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that focuses on subsets of tokens that represent specific sources of errors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation method focuses on subsets of tokens that represent specific sources of errors. |
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