DBpedia entities expansion in automatically building dataset for Indonesian NER

Abstract

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a significant role in Information Extraction (IE). In English, the NER systems have achieved excellent performance, but for the Indonesian language, the systems still need a lot of improvement. To create a reliable NER system using machine learning approach, a massive dataset to train the classifier is a must. Several studies have proposed methods in automatically building dataset for Indonesian NER using Indonesian Wikipedia articles as the source of the dataset and DBpedia as the reference in determining entity types automatically. The objective of our research is to improve the quality of the automatically tagged dataset. We proposed a new method in using DBpedia as the referenced named entities. We have created some rules in expanding DBpedia entities corpus for category person, place, and organization. The resulting training dataset is trained using Stanford NER tool to build an Indonesian NER classifier. The evaluation shows that our method improves recall significantly but has lower precision compared to the previous research.