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Named Entity Recognition for Nepali Language

Computation and Language 2019-08-19 v1

Abstract

Named Entity Recognition have been studied for different languages like English, German, Spanish and many others but no study have focused on Nepali language. In this paper we propose a neural based Nepali NER using latest state-of-the-art architecture based on grapheme-level which doesn't require any hand-crafted features and no data pre-processing. Our novel neural based model gained relative improvement of 33% to 50% compared to feature based SVM model and up to 10% improvement over state-of-the-art neural based model developed for languages beside Nepali.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05828,
  title  = {Named Entity Recognition for Nepali Language},
  author = {Oyesh Mann Singh and Ankur Padia and Anupam Joshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05828},
  year   = {2019}
}
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