{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/named-entities-troubling-your-neural-methods","title":"NE-Table: A Neural key-value table for Named Entities","arxiv_id":"1804.09540","date":"2018-04-22","proceeding":"RANLP 2019 9","authors":["Janarthanan Rajendran","Jatin Ganhotra","Xiaoxiao Guo","Mo Yu","Satinder Singh","Lazaros Polymenakos"],"abstract":"Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks depend on using Named Entities (NEs) that are contained in texts and in external knowledge sources. While this is easy for humans, the present neural methods that rely on learned word embeddings may not perform well for these NLP tasks, especially in the presence of Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) or rare NEs. In this paper, we propose a solution for this problem, and present empirical evaluations on: a) a structured Question-Answering task, b) three related Goal-Oriented dialog tasks, and c) a Reading-Comprehension task, which show that the proposed method can be effective in dealing with both in-vocabulary and OOV NEs. We create extended versions of dialog bAbI tasks 1,2 and 4 and OOV versions of the CBT test set available at - https://github.com/IBM/ne-table-datasets.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09540v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.09540v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"named-entities-troubling-your-neural-methods","repo_url":"https://github.com/IBM/ne-table-datasets","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"goal-oriented-dialog","task_name":"Goal-Oriented Dialog"},{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"},{"task_slug":"reading-comprehension","task_name":"Reading Comprehension"},{"task_slug":"word-embeddings","task_name":"Word Embeddings"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}