Our shared task submission is based on the model of<cite> Chiu and Nichols (2016)</cite> , a hybrid model of bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) networks and convolutional neural networks (CNN) that automatically learns both character-and word-level features, and which holds the current state-of-the-art on both newswire texts (CoNLL 2003) and diverse corpora including Web texts (OntoNotes 5.0).