We would like to add some custom entities to the training set of either Stanford NLP or spaCy, before re-training the model. We are willing to label our custom entities, but we would like to add these to the existing training set, so as to not spend too much time labeling.
We assume that the NLP model was trained on a large labeled data set, which includes labels for words that are labeled "O" ("other", i.e. nothing of interest) as well as words that are labeled "DATE", "PERSON", "ORGANIZATION", etc. We have a custom set of ORGANIZATION words, but we would like to add these to all the other labeled data, before re-training the model.
Is this possible? How can we do this? Do we have to get the labeled dataset that the models were trained on, so we can add our own data? If so, how can we do that?
We have built prototypes using both Stanford NLP and spaCy, so an answer for either one works for us.
For spaCy, you should just be able to call nlp.update(). This will make a weight update against the current weights, allowing you to resume training. If you want to make many updates, you might want to parse some text with the original model and mix that through your training, to avoid the "catastrophic forgetting" problem.
You can use this entity tagger tool by helkaroui to create your own training set.
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I'm a newbie to NLP and I'm working on NER using OpenNLP. I have a sentence like " We have a dinner party today ". Here "dinner party" is an event type. Similarly consider this sentence- "we have a room reservation" here room reservation is an event type. My goal is to extract such words from sentences and label it as "Event_types" as the final output. This can be fairly achieved by creating custom NER model's by annotating sentences with proper tags in the training dataset. But the event types can be heterogeneous and random and hence it is very hard to label all possible patterns(ie. event types can be anything like "security meeting", "family function","parents teachers meeting", etc,etc,...). So I'm looking for an alternate way to achieve this problem... Immediate response would be appreciated. Thanks ! :)
Basically you have two options: 1) A list-based approach where you have lists of entities you will extract from text. To solve the heterogeneous language use, one can train an embedding (e.g. Word2Vec or FastText) to identify contextually similar phrases for your list. 2) Train a custom CRF with data you have annotated (this obviously requires that you annotate bunch of sentences with corresponding tags). I guess the ideal solution really depends on the data and people's willingness to annotate it.
I have been searching how to create a new entity in google natural language API, and found nothing. Can anybody help how to create a new classifier such that if I pass a sentence and I want to detect suppose 'python' as programming language then how would I get that. Current the API is giving 'python' as 'other'.
I have also looked into cloud auto ml api for my solution and tried to create and train a model but It was only able to do sentiment analysis not entity detection.It was giving me the score rather than telling me that Java is programming language.
Thanks in advance.Your help will be appreciated.
Automl content classification classifies your data into the labels specified in the training set. It does not do entity detection. But it seems like what you need to do is closer to content classification than entity detection. My understanding from the description you provided is that you have content (may be words or phrases or short sentences) and you want to classify them into some labels (e.g. programmingLanguage). If you put together a good training set, the automl model should be able to do this.
The number it provides in eval is not sentiment, it's the probability of the predicted label. As you can see in the eval page you posted, it's telling you that java is a programmingLanguage with probability of 1 (so, it's very certain about it).
I know how to train an NER model as specified here and have a very successful one in fact. I also know about the 3 provided caseless models as talked about here. But what if I want to train my own caseless model, what is the trick there? I have a bunch of all uppercase documents for training. Do I use the same training process or are there special/different features for the caseless models or are there properties that need to be set? I can't find a description as to how the provided caseless models were created.
There is only one property change in our models, which is that you want to have it invoke a function that removes case information before words are processed for classification. We do that with this property value (which also maps some words to American spelling):
wordFunction = edu.stanford.nlp.process.LowercaseAndAmericanizeFunction
but there is also simply:
wordFunction = edu.stanford.nlp.process.LowercaseFunction
Having more automatic stuff for deciding document format (hard/soft line breaks), case, or even language would be nice, but at present we don't have any of those....
I have been using the Stanford NER tagger to find the named entities in a document. The problem that I am facing is described below:-
Let the sentence be The film is directed by Ryan Fleck-Anna Boden pair.
Now the NER tagger marks Ryan as one entity, Fleck-Anna as another and Boden as a third entity. The correct marking should be Ryan Fleck as one and Anna Boden as another.
Is this a problem of the NER tagger and if it is then can it be handled?
How about
take your data and run it through Stanford NER or some other NER.
look at the results and find all the mistakes
correctly tag the incorrect results and feed them back into your NER.
lather, rinse, repeat...
This is a sort of manual boosting technique. But your NER probably won't learn too much this way.
In this case it looks like there is a new feature, hyphenated names, the the NER needs to learn about. Why not make up a bunch of hyphenated names, put them in some text, and tag them and train your NER on that?
You should get there by adding more features, more data and training.
Instead of using stanford-coreNLP you could try Apache opeNLP. There is option available to train your model based on your training data. As this model is dependent on the names supplied by you, it able to detect names of your interest.
I want to experiment NER on a specific domain, that is location names extraction from travel offers in Italian language.
So far I've got that I need to prepare the training set by myself, so I'm going to put the
<START:something><END>
tags in some offers from my training set.
But looking at OpenNLP documentation on how to train for NER, I ended up in having a couple of questions:
1) When defining the START/END tags, I'm I free to use whatever name inside the tags (where I wrote "something" a few line above) or is there a restricted set to be bound?
2) I noticed that the call to the training tool
opennlp TokenNameFinderTrainer
takes a string representing the language as the first argument. What is that for? Considering I want to train a model on Italian language that is NOT supported, is there any additional task to be done before I could train for NER?
1) Yes, you can specify multiple types. If the training file contains multiple types, the created model will also be able to detect these multiple types.
2) I think that "lang" parameter has the same meaning/use of other commands (e.g. opennlp TokenizerTrainer -lang it ...)