TSE-NER
An Iterative Approach for Long-Tail Entity Extraction in Scientific Publications
Sepideh Mesbah (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Christoph Lofi (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Manuel Valle Torre (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Alessandro Bozzon (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Abstract
Named Entity Recognition and Typing (NER/NET) is a challenging task, especially with long-tail entities such as the ones found in scientific publications. These entities (e.g. “WebKB”, “StatSnowball”) are rare, often relevant only in specific knowledge domains, yet important for retrieval and exploration purposes. State-of-the-art NER approaches employ supervised machine learning models, trained on expensive typelabeled data laboriously produced by human annotators. A common workaround is the generation of labeled training data from knowledge bases; this approach is not suitable for long-tail entity types that are, by definition, scarcely represented in KBs.
This paper presents an iterative approach for training NER and NET
classifiers in scientific publications that relies on minimal human input,
namely a small seed set of instances for the targeted entity type. We
introduce different strategies for training data extraction, semantic expansion, and result entity filtering.We evaluate our approach on scientific
publications, focusing on the long-tail entities types Datasets, Methods in
computer science publications, and Proteins in biomedical publications.