Recurrent neural networks for Turkish named entity recognition

In this work, we propose a neural network model for Turkish named entity recognition. Model creates a context vector for every position in the sentence by processing the words in forward and backward directions. This context vector is used to obtain a score vector for deciding whether there is an entity in that position or not. A conditional random field (CRF) model is employed to decide the final entity label. In our experiments using this model, performance results higher than the previous works in the literature were observed.