Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to identify and categorize named entities within unstructured text. In recent years, with the development of deep learning techniques, pre-trained language models have been widely used in NER tasks. However...

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Main Authors: Chengzhe Yuan, Feiyi Tang, Chun Shan, Weiqiang Shen, Ronghua Lin, Chengjie Mao, Junxian Li
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author Chengzhe Yuan
Feiyi Tang
Chun Shan
Weiqiang Shen
Ronghua Lin
Chengjie Mao
Junxian Li
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Chun Shan
Weiqiang Shen
Ronghua Lin
Chengjie Mao
Junxian Li
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description Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to identify and categorize named entities within unstructured text. In recent years, with the development of deep learning techniques, pre-trained language models have been widely used in NER tasks. However, these models still face limitations in terms of their scalability and adaptability, especially when dealing with complex linguistic phenomena such as nested entities and long-range dependencies. To address these challenges, we propose the MacBERT-BiGRU-Self Attention-Global Pointer (MB-GAP) model, which integrates MacBERT for deep semantic understanding, BiGRU for rich contextual information, self-attention for focusing on relevant parts of the input, and a global pointer mechanism for precise entity boundary detection. By optimizing the number of attention heads and global pointer heads, our model achieves an effective balance between complexity and performance. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets, including ResumeNER, CLUENER2020, and SCHOLAT-School, demonstrate significant improvements over baseline models.
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spelling doaj-art-09e356e7b53b473186766bc4fd1cabb52024-12-27T14:10:47ZengMDPI AGBig Data and Cognitive Computing2504-22892024-12-0181217910.3390/bdcc8120179Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-AttentionChengzhe Yuan0Feiyi Tang1Chun Shan2Weiqiang Shen3Ronghua Lin4Chengjie Mao5Junxian Li6School of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, Guangzhou Panyu Polytechnic, Guangzhou 511483, ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, ChinaSchool of Information Engineering, Guangzhou Panyu Polytechnic, Guangzhou 511483, ChinaNamed Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to identify and categorize named entities within unstructured text. In recent years, with the development of deep learning techniques, pre-trained language models have been widely used in NER tasks. However, these models still face limitations in terms of their scalability and adaptability, especially when dealing with complex linguistic phenomena such as nested entities and long-range dependencies. To address these challenges, we propose the MacBERT-BiGRU-Self Attention-Global Pointer (MB-GAP) model, which integrates MacBERT for deep semantic understanding, BiGRU for rich contextual information, self-attention for focusing on relevant parts of the input, and a global pointer mechanism for precise entity boundary detection. By optimizing the number of attention heads and global pointer heads, our model achieves an effective balance between complexity and performance. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets, including ResumeNER, CLUENER2020, and SCHOLAT-School, demonstrate significant improvements over baseline models.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/12/179named entity recognitionMacBERTself-attentionglobal pointer
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Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention
Big Data and Cognitive Computing
named entity recognition
MacBERT
self-attention
global pointer
title Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention
title_full Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention
title_fullStr Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention
title_short Exploring Named Entity Recognition via MacBERT-BiGRU and Global Pointer with Self-Attention
title_sort exploring named entity recognition via macbert bigru and global pointer with self attention
topic named entity recognition
MacBERT
self-attention
global pointer
url https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/12/179
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