Improving Indonesian Named Entity Recognition for Domain Zakat Using Conditional Random Fields

Abstract

In Indonesia, where the majority of the population is Muslim, one of the obligations of a Muslim is zakat. To reduce illiteracy about zakat among Muslims, they need to have access to basic information about it. In order to facilitate the acquisition of this information, this study utilized named entity recognition (NER) and defined 12 named entity classes for the zakat domain, including the pillars of Islam, various types of zakat, and zakat management institutions. The Conditional Random Fields method was used for testing Indonesian-NER in three scenarios. In the specific context of the Zakat domain, NER can extract information about organizations, individuals, and locations involved in collecting and distributing Zakat funds. This information can improve the Zakat system’s efficiency and transparency and support research and analysis on Zakat-related topics. The average performance evaluation of the Indonesian-NER model showed a precision of 0.902, recall of 0.834, and an F1-score of 0.867.