Why Attention? Analyze BiLSTM Deficiency and Its Remedies in the Case of NER

Benchmark Model Rank Results
named-entity-recognition-ner-on-ontonotes-v5Att-BiLSTM-CNN#20F1: 88.4Precision: 88.71Recall: 88.11
named-entity-recognition-on-wnut-2017Cross-BiLSTM-CNN#17F1: 42.85Precision: 58.28Recall: 33.92