title: How to add CRF layer in a tensorflow sequential model?
body: <p>I am trying to implement a CRF layer in a TensorFlow sequential model for a NER problem. I am not sure how to do it. Previously when I implemented CRF, I used CRF from keras with tensorflow as backend i.e. I created the entire model in keras instead of tensorflow and then passed the entire model through CRF. It worked. </p>
  
  <p>But now I want to develop the model in Tensorflow as tensorflow2.0.0 beta already has keras inbuilt in it and I am trying to build a sequential layer and add CRF layer after a bidirectional lstm layer. Although I am not sure how to do that. I have gone through the CRF documentation in tensorflow-addons and it contains different functions such as forward CRF etc etc but not sure how to implement them as a layer ? I am wondering is it possible at all to implement a CRF layer inside a sequential tensorflow model or do I need to build the model graph from scratch and then use CRF functions ?  Can anyone please help me with it. Thanks in advance</p>