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The paper discusses two policies for recognizing NEs with complex structures by maximum entropy models. One policy is to develop cascaded MaxEnt models at different levels. The other is to design more detailed tags with human knowledge in order to represent complex structures. The experiments on Chinese organization names recognition indicate that layered structures result in more accurate models while extended tags can not lead to positive results as expected. We empirically prove that the {start, continue, end, unique, other} tag set is the best tag set for NE recognition with MaxEnt models.
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Xiong, D., Yu, H., Liu, Q. (2005). Tagging Complex NEs with MaxEnt Models: Layered Structures Versus Extended Tagset. In: Su, KY., Tsujii, J., Lee, JH., Kwong, O.Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2004. IJCNLP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3248. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30211-7_57
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