Research on Named Entity Recognition for Oral History Text

Oral history involves conveying experienced events through spoken narratives, typically preserved and later studied by converting spoken language into text. Named entity recognition (NER) is the recognition of meaningful named entities in text, such as person names, locations, organizations, etc. Conducting NER research on oral history text is significant as it not only facilitates the verification of named entities by researchers but also allows for the extraction of key information from texts through named entities. By collecting oral history corpus, we establish an oral history text dataset, manually annotating all texts with six entity labels and repeatedly verifying them manually. Utilizing the concept of machine reading comprehension (MRC), a semantic fusion module was added, integrating label information into text information using a cross-attention mechanism, and decoding the corresponding entity labels through span decoding. The final model performs well on the oral history text dataset and also showed good performance on general Chinese datasets.