Memory-based Named Entity Recognition in Tweets

We present a memory-based named entity recognition system that participated in the MSM-2013 Concept Extraction Challenge. The system expands the training set of annotated tweets with part-of-speech tags and seedlist information, and then generates a sequential memory-based tagger comprised of separate modules for known and unknown words. Two taggers are trained: one on the original capitalized data, and one on a lowercased version of the training data. The intersection of named entities in the predictions of the two taggers is kept as the final output.