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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a basic NLP task and finds major applications in conversational and search systems. It helps us identify key entities in a sentence used for the downstream application. NER or similar slot filling systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Parth Patil , Aparna Ranade , Maithili Sabane , Onkar Litake , Raviraj Joshi

Understanding the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential to provide trustworthy artificial intelligence techniques for practical applications. Existing studies typically involve linking semantic concepts to units or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jie Hu , Liujuan Cao , Qixiang Ye , Tong Tong , ShengChuan Zhang , Ke Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji , Ling Shao

Despite impressive results of language models for named entity recognition (NER), their generalization to varied textual genres, a growing entity type set, and new entities remains a challenge. Collecting thousands of annotations in each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Elena V. Epure , Romain Hennequin

Extracting structured intelligence via Named Entity Recognition (NER) is critical for cybersecurity, but the proliferation of datasets with incompatible annotation schemas hinders the development of comprehensive models. While combining…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yasir Ech-Chammakhy , Anas Motii , Anass Rabii , Oussama Azrara , Jaafar Chbili

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical component of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for extracting structured information from unstructured text. However, for low-resource languages like Catalan, the performance of NER systems often…

KnowNER is a multilingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) system that leverages different degrees of external knowledge. A novel modular framework divides the knowledge into four categories according to the depth of knowledge they convey.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Dominic Seyler , Tatiana Dembelova , Luciano Del Corro , Johannes Hoffart , Gerhard Weikum

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims at locating and classifying named entities in text. In some use cases of NER, including cases where detected named entities are used in creating content recommendations, it is crucial to have a reliable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Mahdi Namazifar

Modern automatic translation systems aim at place the human at the center by providing contextual support and knowledge. In this context, a critical task is enriching the output with information regarding the mentioned entities, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Marco Gaido , Sara Papi , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

In this work, we explore the way to perform named entity recognition (NER) using only unlabeled data and named entity dictionaries. To this end, we formulate the task as a positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem and accordingly propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Minlong Peng , Xiaoyu Xing , Qi Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Xuanjing Huang

In recent years, the amount of Cyber Security data generated in the form of unstructured texts, for example, social media resources, blogs, articles, and so on has exceptionally increased. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an initial step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Simran K , Sriram S , Vinayakumar R , Soman KP

Here we present the training and evaluation of NanoNER, a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model for Nanobiology. NER consists in the identification of specific entities in spans of unstructured texts and is often a primary task in Natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Martin Lentschat , Cyril Labbé , Ran Cheng

Designing effective neural architectures poses a significant challenge in deep learning. While Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates the search for optimal architectures, existing methods are often constrained by predetermined search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zekang Yang , Wang Zeng , Sheng Jin , Chen Qian , Ping Luo , Wentao Liu

Zero-shot cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER) aims at transferring knowledge from annotated and rich-resource data in source languages to unlabeled and lean-resource data in target languages. Existing mainstream methods based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Jun-Yu Ma , Beiduo Chen , Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Wu Guo , Quan Liu , Zhigang Chen , Cong Liu

Language model (LM) pretraining has led to consistent improvements in many NLP downstream tasks, including named entity recognition (NER). In this paper, we present T-NER (Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition), a Python library for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados

After decades of massive digitisation, an unprecedented amount of historical documents is available in digital format, along with their machine-readable texts. While this represents a major step forward with respect to preservation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Maud Ehrmann , Ahmed Hamdi , Elvys Linhares Pontes , Matteo Romanello , Antoine Doucet

The increasing diversity of languages used on the web introduces a new level of complexity to Information Retrieval (IR) systems. We can no longer assume that textual content is written in one language or even the same language family. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Rami Al-Rfou , Vivek Kulkarni , Bryan Perozzi , Steven Skiena

The dominant approaches for named entity recognition (NER) mostly adopt complex recurrent neural networks (RNN), e.g., long-short-term-memory (LSTM). However, RNNs are limited by their recurrent nature in terms of computational efficiency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Guiguang Ding , Jianguang Lou , Yusen Zhang , Borje Karlsson

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and domains. One such task is Named Entity Recognition (NER), which involves identifying and classifying proper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shibingfeng Zhang , Giovanni Colavizza

Named entity recognition (NER) identifies typed entity mentions in raw text. While the task is well-established, there is no universally used tagset: often, datasets are annotated for use in downstream applications and accordingly only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiao Huang , Li Dong , Elizabeth Boschee , Nanyun Peng

Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Peter Szolovits