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Traditional named entity recognition (NER) aims to identify text mentions into pre-defined entity types. Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is introduced since entity categories are continuously increasing in various real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yawen Yang , Fukun Ma , Shiao Meng , Aiwei Liu , Lijie Wen

When the world changes, so does the text that humans write about it. How do we build language models that can be easily updated to reflect these changes? One popular approach is retrieval-augmented generation, in which new documents are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Belinda Z. Li , Emmy Liu , Alexis Ross , Abbas Zeitoun , Graham Neubig , Jacob Andreas

Named entity recognition (NER) stands as a fundamental and pivotal task within the realm of Natural Language Processing. Particularly within the domain of Biomedical Method NER, this task presents notable challenges, stemming from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Chen Tang , Bohao Yang , Kun Zhao , Bo Lv , Chenghao Xiao , Frank Guerin , Chenghua Lin

Discourse Entity (DE) recognition is the task of identifying novel and known entities introduced within a text. While previous work has found that large language models have basic, if imperfect, DE recognition abilities (Schuster and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xiaomeng Zhu , Robert Frank

Recently, it has attracted much attention to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems using limited annotated data. Nearly all existing works heavily rely on domain-specific resources, such as external lexicons and knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Houjin Yu , Xian-Ling Mao , Zewen Chi , Wei Wei , Heyan Huang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key information extraction task with a long-standing tradition. While recent studies address and aim to correct annotation errors via re-labeling efforts, little is known about the sources of human label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Siyao Peng , Zihang Sun , Sebastian Loftus , Barbara Plank

Named entity recognition (NER) is a vital task in spoken language understanding, which aims to identify mentions of named entities in text e.g., from transcribed speech. Existing neural models for NER rely mostly on dedicated word-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Abdalghani Abujabal , Judith Gaspers

This work models named entity distribution from a way of visualizing topological structure of embedding space, so that we make an assumption that most, if not all, named entities (NEs) for a language tend to aggregate together to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Zhuosheng Zhang , Bingjie Tang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

Mining structured knowledge from tweets using named entity recognition (NER) can be beneficial for many down stream applications such as recommendation and intention understanding. With tweet posts tending to be multimodal, multimodal named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Peipei Liu , Hong Li , Yimo Ren , Jie Liu , Shuaizong Si , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

Recognizing named entities in a document is a key task in many NLP applications. Although current state-of-the-art approaches to this task reach a high performance on clean text (e.g. newswire genres), those algorithms dramatically degrade…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , A. Pastor López-Monroy , Fabio A. González , Thamar Solorio

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a useful component in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is used in various tasks such as Machine Translation, Summarization, Information Retrieval, and Question-Answering systems. The…

We study the problem of training named entity recognition (NER) models using only distantly-labeled data, which can be automatically obtained by matching entity mentions in the raw text with entity types in a knowledge base. The biggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Named entity recognition (NER) is a foundational technology for information extraction. This paper presents a flexible NER framework compatible with different languages and domains. Inspired by the idea of distant supervision (DS), this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Hongyin Zhu , Wenpeng Hu , Yi Zeng

The automated and timely conversion of cybersecurity information from unstructured online sources, such as blogs and articles to more formal representations has become a necessity for many applications in the domain nowadays. Named Entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Houssem Gasmi , Jannik Laval , Abdelaziz Bouras

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. Traditional NER research only deals with flat entities and ignores nested entities. The span-based methods treat entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yongliang Shen , Xinyin Ma , Zeqi Tan , Shuai Zhang , Wen Wang , Weiming Lu

In this paper, we address web-scale visual entity recognition, specifically the task of mapping a given query image to one of the 6 million existing entities in Wikipedia. One way of approaching a problem of such scale is using dual-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Mathilde Caron , Ahmet Iscen , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a crucial upstream task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Traditional tag scheme approaches offer a single recognition that does not meet the needs of many downstream tasks such as coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Wendong He , Yizhen Shao , Pingjian Zhang

Recurrent Neural Network models are the state-of-the-art for Named Entity Recognition (NER). We present two innovations to improve the performance of these models. The first innovation is the introduction of residual connections between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Quan Tran , Andrew MacKinlay , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

Recognizing software entities such as library names from free-form text is essential to enable many software engineering (SE) technologies, such as traceability link recovery, automated documentation, and API recommendation. While many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tai Nguyen , Yifeng Di , Joohan Lee , Muhao Chen , Tianyi Zhang

NER model has achieved promising performance on standard NER benchmarks. However, recent studies show that previous approaches may over-rely on entity mention information, resulting in poor performance on out-of-vocabulary (OOV) entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Xiao Wang , Shihan Dou , Limao Xiong , Yicheng Zou , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Xuanjing Huang