Neural Model for Named Entity Recognition Considering Aligned Representation

Sequence tagging is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in which the Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the key issue. So far the most widely adopted model for NER in NLP is that of combining the neural network of bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) and the statistical sequence prediction method of Conditional Random Field (CRF). In this work, we improve the prediction accuracy of the BiLSTM by supporting an aligned word representation mechanism. We have performed experiments on multilingual (English, Spanish and Dutch) datasets and confirmed that our proposed model outperformed the existing state-of-the-art models.