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what is BIO Tags for creating custom NER Named entity recognization?

Data Science Asked on September 5, 2021

I would like to create custom Named Entity Recognition (NER), but I am confused about what BIO Tags are. Could anyone please explain the steps for creating NER and about this B, I, O tag.

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It is easy. You need to tag a phrase using B (Begin), I (Interior), and E (End). For example, you want to tag "United States of America" as the name of a country. You will tag likes:

United(B_Country) States(I_Country) of(I_Country) America(E_Country)

In the same text if you find "Islamic Republic of Iran", you will tag likes:

Islamic(B_Country) Republic(I_Country) of(I_Country) Iran(E_Country)

Also, you will tag "United Kingdom" likes:

United(B_Country) Kingdom(E_Country)

Therefore, for every label that you have in the label set, you will have three labels in the tagging that is B_LabelName, I_LabelName, and E_LabelName.

Notice that In some tagging systems, also uses from I_LabelName instead of E_LabelName.

Now, what is "O"? In some cases the all part of the phrase is not in the label but comming in the middle of the phrase and we need to say it is out ("O") of the label. For example, in the text analysis we want to take out "of" from country names. Hence we will tag "United States of America" like the following:

United(B_Country) States(I_Country) of(O_Country) America(E_Country/I_Country)

Answered by OmG on September 5, 2021

BIO Tagging : Common tagging format for tagging tokens in a chunking task in computational linguistics. BIO / IOB format (short for inside, outside, beginning) is a common tagging format for tagging tokens in a chunking task in computational linguistics (ex. named-entity recognition). The B- prefix before a tag indicates that the tag is the beginning of a chunk, and an I- prefix before a tag indicates that the tag is inside a chunk. The B- tag is used only when a tag is followed by a tag of the same type without O tokens between them. An O tag indicates that a token belongs to no entity/chunk.

You can use flair library (https://github.com/flairNLP/flair) to learn your own custom NER model, which is also called sequence tagging in literature. Refer : https://medium.com/thecyphy/training-custom-ner-model-using-flair-df1f9ea9c762

Answered by Prakhar Gurawa on September 5, 2021

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