Abstract
Named Entity Recognition (NER) seeks to identify and classify NEs into predefined categories and is an important subtask in information extraction. Many annotation schemes have been proposed to assign suitable labels for multiword NEs within a given text. This study proposes a method to combine the results of different annotation schemes (IOB, IOE, IOBE, IOBS, IOES, and IOBES) for Arabic NER (ANER). Three voting strategies are explored, namely, majority voting, weighted voting, and weighted voting-based Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), applied to Conditional Random Fields (CRF) classifiers, each corresponding to a certain annotation scheme. The experimental results showed that majority voting can be considered an effective combination strategy to enhance the performance of ANER systems.
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