On the Strength of Character Language Models for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Character-level patterns have been widely used in English Named Entity Recognition systems. |
| Approach: | They propose to use corpus-agnostic character-level language models to capture name tokens . they demonstrate they can capture name and non-name tokens in a diverse set of languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the performance of an off-the-shelf NER system for multiple languages. |
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