A Multi-task Learning Approach for Named Entity Recognition using Local Detection

5 Apr 2019  ·  Nargiza Nosirova, MingBin Xu, Hui Jiang ·

Named entity recognition (NER) systems that perform well require task-related and manually annotated datasets. However, they are expensive to develop, and are thus limited in size. As there already exists a large number of NER datasets that share a certain degree of relationship but differ in content, it is important to explore the question of whether such datasets can be combined as a simple method for improving NER performance. To investigate this, we developed a novel locally detecting multitask model using FFNNs. The model relies on encoding variable-length sequences of words into theoretically lossless and unique fixed-size representations. We applied this method to several well-known NER tasks and compared the results of our model to baseline models as well as other published results. As a result, we observed competitive performance in nearly all of the tasks.

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