Product Name Recognition for Informal Text: Exploring Features

Abstract:

Product name recognition refers to locate the name of product in text automatically. We built a conditional random field to recognize product name from forum posts and explored various features to compare their impact on the performance. These features include not only traditional features used for NER but also distributed word representations which are novel features obtained from new area of machine learning.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 551)
• Pages: 617-620
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.551.617
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Tao He, Juan Liu*
• Keywords: Informal Text, Information Extraction, Product Name, Word Representation

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