Pronounce differently, mean differently: A multi-tagging-scheme learning method for Chinese NER integrated with lexicon and phonetic features

Chengcheng Mai, Jian Liu, Mengchuan Qiu, Kaiwen Luo, Ziyan Peng, Chunfeng Yuan, Yihua Huang

Abstract: Highlights•The pronunciation of Chinese characters contains important semantic information.•The phonetic features can solve the ambiguity problem in Chinese entity boundary identification.•The proposed multi-tagging-scheme method can alleviate the data sparsity and error propagation problems for Chinese NER.