RENA: A Named Entity Recognition System for Arabic

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作者
El Bazi, Ismail [1 ]
Laachfoubi, Nabil [1 ]
机构
[1] Hassan 1st Univ, FST, Comp Networks Mobil & Modeling Lab, Settat, Morocco
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关键词
Natural Language Processing; Named Entity Recognition; Machine learning; Arabic;
D O I
10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_45
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
The Named Entity Recognition (NER) task aims to identify and categorize proper and important nouns in a text. This Natural Language Processing task proved to be challenging for languages with a rich morphology such as the Arabic language. In this paper, We introduce a new named entity recognizer for Arabic. This recognizer is based on Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and an optimized feature set that combines contextual, lexical, morphological and gazetteers features. Our system outperforms the state-of-the-art Arabic NER systems with a F-measure of 93.5% when applied to ANERcorp standard dataset.
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页码:396 / 404
页数:9
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