Research on Named Entity Recognition in Ancient Chinese Based on Incremental Pre-training and Domain Lexicon
摘要
Currently, there is limited research on ancient Chinese named entity recognition, primarily due to the scarcity of publicly available datasets for model training. We constructed a CMAG-NER dataset based on the “Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government”. Addressing the challenges faced by existing models in identifying person entities with omitted surnames and determining entity boundaries in ancient Chinese texts, we integrated the LEBERT-CRF model with a general domain lexicon and the “Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government Dictionary” to fuse external statistical information and rule-based knowledge, thereby enhancing the performance of ancient Chinese named entity recognition. Additionally, to improve the model’s comprehension of ancient Chinese, we have compiled a substantial corpus of ancient Chinese literature for incremental pre-training of BERT-Ancient-Chinese. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively mitigates the aforementioned challenges, but the performance of large models on this task still requires improvement.