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PAI at SemEval-2023 Task 2: A Universal System for Named Entity Recognition with External Entity Information

Computation and Language 2023-05-11 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The MultiCoNER II task aims to detect complex, ambiguous, and fine-grained named entities in low-context situations and noisy scenarios like the presence of spelling mistakes and typos for multiple languages. The task poses significant challenges due to the scarcity of contextual information, the high granularity of the entities(up to 33 classes), and the interference of noisy data. To address these issues, our team {\bf PAI} proposes a universal Named Entity Recognition (NER) system that integrates external entity information to improve performance. Specifically, our system retrieves entities with properties from the knowledge base (i.e. Wikipedia) for a given text, then concatenates entity information with the input sentence and feeds it into Transformer-based models. Finally, our system wins 2 first places, 4 second places, and 1 third place out of 13 tracks. The code is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/diqiuzhuanzhuan/semeval-2023}.

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@article{arxiv.2305.06099,
  title  = {PAI at SemEval-2023 Task 2: A Universal System for Named Entity Recognition with External Entity Information},
  author = {Long Ma and Kai Lu and Tianbo Che and Hailong Huang and Weiguo Gao and Xuan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06099},
  year   = {2023}
}

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win 2 first places, 4 second places, and 1 third place out of 13 tracks

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