DDiNER: domain dictionary-guided Chinese named entity recognition for complex industrial contexts

Abstract

Accurate Chinese named entity recognition (NER) in the process industry is crucial for applications such as information extraction, knowledge graph construction, and intelligent decision-making. However, challenges, including ambiguous entity boundaries, semantic overlaps, and limited annotated data, significantly hinder performance. To address these issues, this study proposes DDiNER, a domain dictionary-guided Chinese NER framework that integrates a hierarchical industrial domain dictionary with bidirectional encoder representations from Transformers (BERT) via a hierarchical lexicon adapter (HLA), combined with bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) and conditional random field (CRF) layers for multilevel feature fusion. Experimental results show that DDiNER achieves superior performance, with average precision, recall, and F1-scores of 95.75%, 95.73%, and 95.74%, respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art models. Validation on an independent dataset confirms its robustness and strong capability in recognizing unseen and long-tail entities. This study provides an effective and scalable solution for industrial Chinese NER, with significant potential for downstream intelligent applications.

Keywords

Named entity recognition (NER) / Process industry / Domain dictionary / Hierarchical lexicon adapter (HLA)

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

The Authors. Published by Zhejiang University Press Co., Ltd.