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"abstract": "Annotating Named Entity Recognition (NER) training corpora is a costly process but necessary for supervised NER systems. This paper presents an approach to generate large-scale Chinese NER training data from an English-Chinese discourse level aligned parallel corpus. Difficulty of NER is different among languages due to their unique features. For example, the performance of English NER systems is usually higher than the Chinese ones on average. In our method, we first employ a high performance NER system on one side of a bilingual corpus. And then, we project the NE labels to the other side according to the word level alignment. At last, we select high-quality labeled sentences using different strategies and generate an NER training corpus. In our experiments, we generate a Chinese NER corpus with 167,100 sentences through an English-Chinese parallel corpus. The system trained on the automatically generated corpus attains a comparable result with the one trained on the manuallyannotated corpus. Further experiments show that the NER performance is significantly improved on two different evaluation sets by using the generated training data as an additional corpus to the manually-labeled data.",
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"text": "Annotating Named Entity Recognition (NER) training corpora is a costly process but necessary for supervised NER systems. This paper presents an approach to generate large-scale Chinese NER training data from an English-Chinese discourse level aligned parallel corpus. Difficulty of NER is different among languages due to their unique features. For example, the performance of English NER systems is usually higher than the Chinese ones on average. In our method, we first employ a high performance NER system on one side of a bilingual corpus. And then, we project the NE labels to the other side according to the word level alignment. At last, we select high-quality labeled sentences using different strategies and generate an NER training corpus. In our experiments, we generate a Chinese NER corpus with 167,100 sentences through an English-Chinese parallel corpus. The system trained on the automatically generated corpus attains a comparable result with the one trained on the manuallyannotated corpus. Further experiments show that the NER performance is significantly improved on two different evaluation sets by using the generated training data as an additional corpus to the manually-labeled data.",
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"text": "Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying the names of persons, * Correspondence author: tliu@ir.hit.edu.cn locations, organizations and other named entities in text, which plays an important role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, machine translation, and so on.",
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"text": "Supervised machine learning systems have proved successful for NER (Zhou and Su, 2002; Chieu and Ng, 2002; Takeuchi and Collier, 2002; Settles, 2004) . They usually need manuallyannotated high performance textual corpora. These corpora are considered as gold standards for training statistical models. However, corpora manually-annotating is so costly and timeconsuming that the existing corpora are limited in both scale and scope for Chinese NER.",
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"text": "More seriously, the domain overfitting problem even worsens the corpora-shortage problem. Supervised NER approaches can often achieve high accuracy when a large annotated training set similar to the test data is available (Zhou and Su, 2002; Florian et al., 2003; Klein et al., 2003; Finkel et al., 2005) . Unfortunately, if the test data has some difference from the training data, these approaches tend to not perform well. For instance, Ciaramita and Altun (2005) reported that the F1-score of a named entity recognizer trained on CoNLL 2003 Reuters corpus dropped from 90.8% (when tested on a similar Reuters set) to 64.3% (when tested on a Wall Street Journal set). A similar phenomenon of performance degradation in Chinese NER will be presented later in this paper (see Table 3 ).",
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"text": "The most closed related work to our approach is Yarowsky et al. (2001) . They used word alignment on parallel corpora to induce several text analysis tools from English to other languages for which such resources are scarce. An NE tagger was transferred from English to French and achieved good classification accuracy. However, Chinese NER is more difficult than French and word alignment between Chinese and English is also more complex because of the tremendous difference between the two languages. Huang and Vogel (2002) presented an integrated approach to extract an NE translation dictionary from an English-Chinese parallel corpus while improving the monolingual NE annotation quality for both languages. They started with low-quality NE tagging for both languages and improved the annotation result using alignment information. But they did not filter the annotated data and evaluate its impact for NER as training data.",
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"text": "Besides, some other resources have been used to generate NE tagged corpus. and Whitelaw et al. (2008) used seed sets of entities and search engines to collect NER training data from the web. However, constructing of a high-quality seed list is also a time-consuming work. Richman and Schone (2008) and Nothman et al. (2008) used similar methods to create NE training data. They transformed Wikipedia's links into named entity annotations by classifying the target articles into common entity types. But the article classification seeds also had to be hand-labeled in advance.",
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"text": "We consider all related alignment pairs of every word within an English NE. For example, in Figure 3 , the index of the organization name NBA is 1 and the related word alignment pairs Figure 3 . An Example of Chinese NE Candidates Generation include 1-1, 1-2 and 1-3. Therefore, we can find the boundaries (from 1 to 3) of the corresponding Chinese translation \u56fd\u5bb6 \u7bee\u7403 \u534f\u4f1a. There are also some English words connecting with NULL at Chinese side. We ignore these word alignment pairs. According to the alignment, we project the NE labels from English to Chinese and generate the named entity candidates on the Chinese side.",
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"text": "As the common definition, a named entity is a continuous string, whether it is in English or in Chinese. So we assume that every named entity alignment pair is a closed alignment pair of two continuous strings, as shown in Figure 4 Based on this assumption, we make two alternative rules to filter the training data candidates. One is a soft filtering rule to retain training instances as many as possible. Another is a hard filtering rule to guarantee the quality of the gen- Rule 1 prefers to keep training instances as many as possible. But it may make some NEs be labeled as non-NE mistakingly on the Chinese side for incorrect word alignments, which are the noises in the generated training data. Rule 2 prefers to guarantee the quality of the generated data but may make useful training instances be discarded and the data scale shrinking.",
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