Liam Duignan

Unveiling Strengths and Weaknesses of NLP Systems Based on a Rich Evaluation Corpus: The Case of NER in French

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an applicative task for which annotation schemes vary. To compare the performance of systems which tagsets differ in precision and coverage, it is necessary to assess (i) the comparability of their annotation schemes and (ii) the individual adequacy of the latter to…