4.2. NEURAL MODELS VS. CRFSNEXT, WE CONDUCTED EXPERIMENTS USING...

5.4.2. Neural models vs. CRFs

Next, we conducted experiments using neural models to compare with the CRF

model. Precision, recall, and the F

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scores (on average of all entity types) of neural

extraction models are shown in Table 8. Our first observation is that all the variants

of the neural models outperformed the CRF model by a large margin. This shows the

power and effectiveness of the neural models with automatically learned features for

the task. Our best model using bidirectional LSTM and CRFs with both automatically

learned and handcrafted features achieved 88.11% in the F

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score, which improved