... because, in manycases, the previous label of a named entity is “O”,which indicates a non-named entity. For 98.0% of the named entities in the training data of the sharedtask in the 2004 JNLPBA, the ... than the system without it (the p-value isless than 1.0 < 10−4). The result of the precedingentity information improves the performance. On the other hand, the system with preceding infor-mation ... the final performance. In this experiment, we couldnot examine the performance without filtering us-ing all the training data, because training on all the training data without filtering required muchlarger...