| dc.description.abstract | Named entity recognition (NER) is of vital importance in information extraction and natural language processing. Current NER research are trained mainly on journalistic documents such as news articles to extract person names, location names, and organization names. Since they have not been trained to deal with informal documents, the performance drops on Web documents which contain noise, and is less structured. Therefore, the State-of-the-art NER systems do not work well on Web documents. When users want to recognize named entity from Web documents, they certainly have to retrain the new model. Retraining a new model is labor intensive and time consuming. The preparatory work includes preparing a large set of training data, labeling named entity, selecting an appropriate segmentation, symbols unification, normalization, designing feature, preparing dictionary, and so on. The pre-processing work is very complicated. Besides, users need to repeat the previous work for different languages or different recognition types. In this research, we propose a NER model generation tool for effective Web entity extraction. We propose a semi-supervised learning approach for NER via automatic labeling and tri-training which makes use of unlabeled data and structured resources containing known named entities. Experiments confirmed that the use of this tool can be applied in different languages for various types of named entities. In the task of Chinese organization name extraction, the generated model can achieve 86.1% F1 score on the 38,692 sentences with 16,241 distinct names, while the performance for Japanese organization name, English organization name, Chinese location name extraction, Chinese address recognition and English address recognition can be reached 80.3%, 83.2%, 84.5%, 97.2% and 94.8% F1-measure, respectively. | en_US |