Semi-Supervised Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory and Conditional Random Fields Model for Named-Entity Recognition Using Embeddings from Language Models Representations

Increasingly, popular online museums have significantly changed the way people acquire cultural knowledge. These online museums have been generating abundant amounts of cultural relics data. In recent years, researchers have used deep learning models that can automatically extract complex features and have rich representation capabilities to implement named-entity recognition (NER). However, the lack of labeled data in the field of cultural relics makes it difficult for deep learning models that rely on labeled data to achieve excellent performance. To address this problem, this paper proposes a semi-supervised deep learning model named SCRNER (Semi-supervised model for Cultural Relics’ Named Entity Recognition) that utilizes the bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) and conditional random fields (CRF) model trained by seldom labeled data and abundant unlabeled data to attain an effective performance. To satisfy the semi-supervised sample selection, we propose a repeat-labeled (relabeled) strategy to select samples of high confidence to enlarge the training set iteratively. In addition, we use embeddings from language model (ELMo) representations to dynamically acquire word representations as the input of the model to solve the problem of the blurred boundaries of cultural objects and Chinese characteristics of texts in the field of cultural relics. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model, trained on limited labeled data, achieves an effective performance in the task of named entity recognition of cultural relics.