This work was inspired in Guo's paper[1] entitled "Revisiting Embedding Features for Simple Semi-supervised Learning" applied to Spanish language. Some experiments have shown that applying some succesful methods for English NER don't have the same effect to Spanish NER.
#Requirements CRFSuite #Data CoNLL 2002 shared task [2] gave rise to a training and evaluation standard for supervised NER algorithms http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2002/ner/
#References
- Jiang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Haifeng Wang, and Ting Liu. 2014. Revisiting embedding features for simple semi-supervised learning. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 110–120, Doha, Qatar, October. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. 2002. Introduction to the conll-2002 shared task: Language-independent named entity recognition. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning - Volume 20, COLING-02, pages 1–4, Stroudsburg, PA, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.