GHHT at CALCS 2018: Named Entity Recognition for Dialectal Arabic Using Neural Networks

WS 2018  ·  Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih, Wolfgang Maier ·

This paper describes our system submission to the CALCS 2018 shared task on named entity recognition on code-switched data for the language variant pair of Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian dialectal Arabic. We build a a Deep Neural Network that combines word and character-based representations in convolutional and recurrent networks with a CRF layer. The model is augmented with stacked layers of enriched information such pre-trained embeddings, Brown clusters and named entity gazetteers. Our system is ranked second among those participating in the shared task achieving an FB1 average of 70.09{\%}.

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