Neural Chinese Address Parsing

Hao Li, Wei Lu, Pengjun Xie, Linlin Li


Abstract
This paper introduces a new task – Chinese address parsing – the task of mapping Chinese addresses into semantically meaningful chunks. While it is possible to model this problem using a conventional sequence labelling approach, our observation is that there exist complex dependencies between labels that cannot be readily captured by a simple linear-chain structure. We investigate neural structured prediction models with latent variables to capture such rich structural information within Chinese addresses. We create and publicly release a new dataset consisting of 15K Chinese addresses, and conduct extensive experiments on the dataset to investigate the model effectiveness and robustness. We release our code and data at http://statnlp.org/research/sp.
Anthology ID:
N19-1346
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3421–3431
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1346
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1346
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Hao Li, Wei Lu, Pengjun Xie, and Linlin Li. 2019. Neural Chinese Address Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 3421–3431, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Neural Chinese Address Parsing (Li et al., NAACL 2019)
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