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Results of the WNUT2017 Shared Task on Novel and Emerging Entity Recognition
2017
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text
This shared task focuses on identifying unusual, previously-unseen entities in the context of emerging discussions. Named entities form the basis of many modern approaches to other tasks (like event clustering and summarization), but recall on them is a real problem in noisy text -even among annotators. This drop tends to be due to novel entities and surface forms. Take for example the tweet "so.. kktny in 30 mins?!" -even human experts find the entity kktny hard to detect and resolve. The goal
doi:10.18653/v1/w17-4418
dblp:conf/aclnut/DerczynskiNEL17
fatcat:icr7evkj6ngf3jwzalqenky4xq