Enhanced Named Entity Recognition Based on Multi-Feature Fusion Using Dual Graph Neural Networks
Hanzhao Gu, Jialin Ma, Yanran Zhao, Ashim Khadka
Abstract
Named Entity Recognition (NER), a pivotal task in information extraction, is aimed at identifying named entities of various types within text. Traditional NER methods, however, often fall short in providing sufficient semantic representation of text and preserving word order information. Addressing these challenges, a novel approach is proposed, leveraging dual Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) based on multi-feature fusion. This approach constructs a co-occurrence graph and a dependency syntax graph from text sequences, capturing textual features from a dual-graph perspective to overcome the oversight of word interdependencies. Furthermore, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks (BiLSTMs) are utilized to encode text, addressing the issues of neglecting word order features and the difficulty in capturing contextual semantic information. Additionally, to enable the model to learn features across different subspaces and the varying degrees of information significance, a multi-head self-attention mechanism is introduced for calculating internal dependency weights within feature vectors. The proposed model achieves F1-scores of 84.85% and 96.34% on the CCKS-2019 and Resume datasets, respectively, marking improvements of 1.13 and 0.67 percentage points over baseline models. The results affirm the effectiveness of the presented method in enhancing performance on the NER task.