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A Hidden Markov Model Based System for Entity Extraction from Social Media English Text at FIRE 2015

Computation and Language 2015-12-15 v1

Abstract

This paper presents the experiments carried out by us at Jadavpur University as part of the participation in FIRE 2015 task: Entity Extraction from Social Media Text - Indian Languages (ESM-IL). The tool that we have developed for the task is based on Trigram Hidden Markov Model that utilizes information like gazetteer list, POS tag and some other word level features to enhance the observation probabilities of the known tokens as well as unknown tokens. We submitted runs for English only. A statistical HMM (Hidden Markov Models) based model has been used to implement our system. The system has been trained and tested on the datasets released for FIRE 2015 task: Entity Extraction from Social Media Text - Indian Languages (ESM-IL). Our system is the best performer for English language and it obtains precision, recall and F-measures of 61.96, 39.46 and 48.21 respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1512.03950,
  title  = {A Hidden Markov Model Based System for Entity Extraction from Social Media English Text at FIRE 2015},
  author = {Kamal Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03950},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

FIRE 2015 Task:Entity Extraction from Social Media Text - Indian Languages (ESM-IL) - See more at: http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/home#sthash.HpgiwjP5.dpuf. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1405.7397