Improving Named Entity Recognition in Tor Darknet with Local Distance Neighbor Feature
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Name entity recognition in noisy user-generated texts is a difficult task usually enhanced by incorporating an external resource of information, such as gazetteers. However, gazetteers are task-specific, and they are expensive to build and maintain. This paper adopts and improves the approach of Aguilar et al. by presenting a novel feature, called Local Distance Neighbor, which substitutes gazetteers. We tested the new approach on the W-NUT-2017 dataset, obtaining state-of-the-art results for the Group, Person and Product categories of Named Entities. Next, we added 851 manually labeled samples to the W-NUT-2017 dataset to account for named entities in the Tor Darknet related to weapons and drug selling. Finally, our proposal achieved an entity and surface F1 scores of 52.96 usefulness for Law Enforcement Agencies to detect named entities in the Tor hidden services.
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