The Utility and Interplay of Gazetteers and Entity Segmentation for Named Entity Recognition in English (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent papers introduce methods to incorporate gazetteer features and entity segmentation techniques in neural named entity recognition models. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate gazetteer features and entity segmentation techniques into neural named entity recognition models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve entity segmentation and not just entity typing. |
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