garNER at SemEval-2023: Simplified Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition

Md Zobaer Hossain, Averie Ho Zoen So, Silviya Silwal, H. Andres Gonzalez Gongora, Ahnaf Mozib Samin, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Aritra Mazumder, Sourav Saha, Sabiha Tahsin Soha


Abstract
This paper presents our solution, garNER, to the SemEval-2023 MultiConer task. We propose a knowledge augmentation approach by directly querying entities from the Wikipedia API and appending the summaries of the entities to the input sentence. These entities are either retrieved from the labeled training set (Gold Entity) or from off-the-shelf entity taggers (Entity Extractor). Ensemble methods are then applied across multiple models to get the final prediction. Our analysis shows that the added contexts are beneficial only when such contexts are relevant to the target-named entities, but detrimental when the contexts are irrelevant.
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2023.semeval-1.114
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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823–835
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.114
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.114
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Md Zobaer Hossain, Averie Ho Zoen So, Silviya Silwal, H. Andres Gonzalez Gongora, Ahnaf Mozib Samin, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Aritra Mazumder, Sourav Saha, and Sabiha Tahsin Soha. 2023. garNER at SemEval-2023: Simplified Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 823–835, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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garNER at SemEval-2023: Simplified Knowledge Augmentation for Multilingual Complex Named Entity Recognition (Hossain et al., SemEval 2023)
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