Fine-tuning Pre-trained Named Entity Recognition Models For Indian Languages

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The research on NER is centered around English and some other major l...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-05
Main Authors: Bahad, Sankalp, Mishra, Pruthwik, Arora, Karunesh, Balabantaray, Rakesh Chandra, Dipti Misra Sharma, Krishnamurthy, Parameswari
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Language:English
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Datasets
Information retrieval
Machine translation
Natural language processing
Recognition
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Summary:Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The research on NER is centered around English and some other major languages, whereas limited attention has been given to Indian languages. We analyze the challenges and propose techniques that can be tailored for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition for Indian Languages. We present a human annotated named entity corpora of 40K sentences for 4 Indian languages from two of the major Indian language families. Additionally,we present a multilingual model fine-tuned on our dataset, which achieves an F1 score of 0.80 on our dataset on average. We achieve comparable performance on completely unseen benchmark datasets for Indian languages which affirms the usability of our model.
ISSN:2331-8422