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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in the fields of natural language processing and information extraction. NER has been widely used as a standalone tool or an essential component in a variety of applications such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Vladislav Mikhailov , Tatiana Shavrina

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task of Biomedical Natural Language Processing for extracting relevant information from biomedical texts, such as clinical records, scientific publications, and electronic health…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Fahime Shahrokh , Nasser Ghadiri , Rasoul Samani , Milad Moradi

Motivation: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key task to support biomedical research. In Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER), obtaining high-quality expert annotated data is laborious and expensive, leading to the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Liangping Ding , Giovanni Colavizza , Zhixiong Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated dominating performance in many NLP tasks, especially on generative tasks. However, they often fall short in some information extraction tasks, particularly those requiring domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junyi Bian , Jiaxuan Zheng , Yuyi Zhang , Shanfeng Zhu

Recent advances in named entity recognition (NER) have pushed the boundary of the task to incorporate visual signals, leading to many variants, including multi-modal NER (MNER) or grounded MNER (GMNER). A key challenge to these tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hyunjong Ok , Taeho Kil , Sukmin Seo , Jaeho Lee

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) are essential tools in distilling knowledge from biomedical literature. This paper presents our findings from participating in BioNLP Shared Tasks 2019. We addressed Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Usama Yaseen , Pankaj Gupta , Hinrich Schütze

We present judgeWEL, a dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in Luxembourgish, automatically labelled and subsequently verified using large language models (LLM) in a novel pipeline. Building datasets for under-represented languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alistair Plum , Laura Bernardy , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical component of Natural Language Processing with diverse applications in information extraction and conversational AI. However, NER in specific domains for low-resource languages faces challenges…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Do Minh Duc , Quan Xuan Truong , Viet Tran Hong , Le Hoang Anh , Mac Thi Minh Tra , Nguyen Van Thuy , Le Hai Ha , Vinh Nguyen Van

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) is the task of detecting named entities of specific types (such as 'Person' or 'Medicine') without any training examples. Current research increasingly relies on large synthetic datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Max Ploner , Fabio Barth , Nicolaas Jedema , Alan Akbik

Recognition of biomedical entities from literature is a challenging research focus, which is the foundation for extracting a large amount of biomedical knowledge existing in unstructured texts into structured formats. Using the sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Cong Sun , Zhihao Yang , Lei Wang , Yin Zhang , Hongfei Lin , Jian Wang

Biomedical named entity recognition is one of the core tasks in biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP). To tackle this task, numerous supervised/distantly supervised approaches have been proposed. Despite their remarkable success,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zihao Fu , Yixuan Su , Zaiqiao Meng , Nigel Collier

In this report, we describe our participant named-entity recognition system at VLSP 2018 evaluation campaign. We formalized the task as a sequence labeling problem using BIO encoding scheme. We applied a feature-based model which combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Pham Quang Nhat Minh

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable versatility in various NLP tasks but encounter distinct challenges in biomedical due to the complexities of language and data scarcity. This paper investigates LLMs application in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Masoud Monajatipoor , Jiaxin Yang , Joel Stremmel , Melika Emami , Fazlolah Mohaghegh , Mozhdeh Rouhsedaghat , Kai-Wei Chang

In this work, we formulate the NER task as a multi-answer knowledge guided QA task (KGQA) which helps to predict entities only by assigning B, I and O tags without associating entity types with the tags. We provide different knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Pratyay Banerjee , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Murthy Devarakonda , Chitta Baral

In the rapidly evolving field of healthcare and beyond, the integration of generative AI in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) represents a pivotal advancement, addressing a critical gap in current information extraction techniques. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Mohammed-Khalil Ghali , Abdelrahman Farrag , Hajar Sakai , Hicham El Baz , Yu Jin , Sarah Lam

The growth rate in the amount of biomedical documents is staggering. Unlocking information trapped in these documents can enable researchers and practitioners to operate confidently in the information world. Biomedical NER, the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xiang Dai

Finding relevant and high-quality datasets to train machine learning models is a major bottleneck for practitioners. Furthermore, to address ambitious real-world use-cases there is usually the requirement that the data come labelled with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Georgios Papadopoulos , Fran Silavong , Sean Moran

Deep neural models for named entity recognition (NER) have shown impressive results in overcoming label scarcity and generalizing to unseen entities by leveraging distant supervision and auxiliary information such as explanations. However,…

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental NLP tasks with a wide range of practical applications. The performance of state-of-the-art NER methods depends on high quality manually anotated datasets which still do not exist for some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Dávid Šuba , Marek Šuppa , Jozef Kubík , Endre Hamerlik , Martin Takáč

Knowledge discovery is hindered by the increasing volume of publications and the scarcity of extensive annotated data. To tackle the challenge of information overload, it is essential to employ automated methods for knowledge extraction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Christos Theodoropoulos , Andrei Catalin Coman , James Henderson , Marie-Francine Moens