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Chinese NER Using Lattice LSTM

5 May 2018ACL 2018 7arXiv:1805.02023archive 2025-07-28

Yue Zhang, Jie Yang

We investigate a lattice-structured LSTM model for Chinese NER, which encodes a sequence of input characters as well as all potential words that match a lexicon. Compared with character-based methods, our model explicitly leverages word and word sequence information. Compared with word-based methods, lattice LSTM does not suffer from segmentation errors. Gated recurrent cells allow our model to choose the most relevant characters and words from a sentence for better NER results. Experiments on various datasets show that lattice LSTM outperforms both word-based and character-based LSTM baselines, achieving the best results.

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Tasks

Chinese Named Entity RecognitionNERSentence

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Chinese Named Entity Recognition MSRA Lattice F1 93.18 #19 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Chinese Named Entity Recognition OntoNotes 4 Lattice F1 73.88 #14 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Chinese Named Entity Recognition Resume NER Lattice F1 94.46 #13 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Chinese Named Entity Recognition Weibo NER Lattice F1 58.79 #15 of 18 Archive leaderboard report

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LSTMSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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