Enhancing Entity Boundary Detection for Better Chinese Named Entity Recognition (2021.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) lack explicit word boundary and tenses information. |
| Approach: | They propose a boundary enhanced approach for Chinese Named Entity Recognition . they add an additional Graph Attention Network(GAT) layer to capture internal dependency of phrases . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) on OntoNotes and Weibo corpora. |
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