TSE-NER

An Iterative Approach for Long-Tail Entity Extraction in Scientific Publications

Conference Paper (2018)
Author(s)

Sepideh Mesbah (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

Christoph Lofi (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

Manuel Valle Torre (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

Alessandro Bozzon (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

G. J. Houben (TU Delft - Web Information Systems)

Research Group
Web Information Systems
Copyright
© 2018 S. Mesbah, C. Lofi, M. Valle Torre, A. Bozzon, G.J.P.M. Houben
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_8
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Publication Year
2018
Language
English
Copyright
© 2018 S. Mesbah, C. Lofi, M. Valle Torre, A. Bozzon, G.J.P.M. Houben
Research Group
Web Information Systems
Bibliographical Note
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Pages (from-to)
127-143
ISBN (print)
978-3-030-00670-9
ISBN (electronic)
978-3-030-00671-6
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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.

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