ACE-ADP: Adversarial Contextual Embeddings Based Named Entity Recognition for Agricultural Diseases and Pests

Author:

Guo XuchaoORCID,Hao Xia,Tang Zhan,Diao Lei,Bai Zhao,Lu Shuhan,Li Lin

Abstract

Entity recognition tasks, which aim to utilize the deep learning-based models to identify the agricultural diseases and pests-related nouns such as the names of diseases, pests, and drugs from the texts collected on the internet or input by users, are a fundamental component for agricultural knowledge graph construction and question-answering, which will be implemented as a web application and provide the general public with solutions for agricultural diseases and pest control. Nonetheless, there are still challenges: (1) the polysemous problem needs to be further solved, (2) the quality of the text representation needs to be further enhanced, (3) the performance for rare entities needs to be further improved. We proposed an adversarial contextual embeddings-based model named ACE-ADP for named entity recognition in Chinese agricultural diseases and pests domain (CNER-ADP). First, we enhanced the text representation and overcame the polysemy problem by using the fine-tuned BERT model to generate the contextual character-level embedded representation with the specific knowledge. Second, adversarial training was also introduced to enhance the generalization and robustness in terms of identifying the rare entities. The experimental results showed that our model achieved an F1 of 98.31% with 4.23% relative improvement compared to the baseline model (i.e., word2vec-based BiLSTM-CRF) on the self-annotated corpus named Chinese named entity recognition dataset for agricultural diseases and pests (AgCNER). Besides, the ablation study and discussion demonstrated that ACE-ADP could not only effectively extract rare entities but also maintain a powerful ability to predict new entities in new datasets with high accuracy. It could be used as a basis for further research on other domain-specific named entity recognition.

Funder

the National Key Research and Development Program

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Plant Science,Agronomy and Crop Science,Food Science

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