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Named Entity Recognition (NER) frequently suffers from the problem of insufficient labeled data, particularly in fine-grained NER scenarios. Although $K$-shot learning techniques can be applied, their performance tends to saturate when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Su Ah Lee , Seokjin Oh , Woohwan Jung

Named entity recognition (NER) is a crucial task that aims to identify structured information, which is often replete with complex, technical terms and a high degree of variability. Accurate and reliable NER can facilitate the extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Grace Yang , Zhiyi Li , Yadong Liu , Jungyeul Park

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing that aims to identify and classify named entities in text. However, span-based methods for NER typically assign entity types to text spans, resulting in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Minghao Tang , Yongquan He , Yongxiu Xu , Hongbo Xu , Wenyuan Zhang , Yang Lin

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

As biological gender is one of the aspects of presenting individual human, much work has been done on gender classification based on people names. The proposals for English and Chinese languages are tremendous; still, there have been few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Huy Quoc To , Kiet Van Nguyen , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen

Named Entity Recognition (NER) System aims to extract the existing information into the following categories such as: Persons Name, Organization, Location, Date and Time, Term, Designation and Short forms. Now, it is considered to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Awais Khan Jumani , Mashooque Ahmed Memon , Fida Hussain Khoso , Anwar Ali Sanjrani , Safeeullah Soomro

In recent years, the rise of large language models (LLMs) has made it possible to directly achieve named entity recognition (NER) without any demonstration samples or only using a few samples through in-context learning (ICL). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Guochao Jiang , Zepeng Ding , Yuchen Shi , Deqing Yang

The automatic extraction of character networks from literary texts is generally carried out using natural language processing (NLP) cascading pipelines. While this approach is widespread, no study exists on the impact of low-level NLP tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Arthur Amalvy , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour

Fine-tuning pre-trained language models has recently become a common practice in building NLP models for various tasks, especially few-shot tasks. We argue that under the few-shot setting, formulating fine-tuning closer to the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zihan Wang , Kewen Zhao , Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang

Inspired by recent successes in neural machine translation and image caption generation, we present an attention based encoder decoder model (AED) to recognize Vietnamese Handwritten Text. The model composes of two parts: a DenseNet for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Anh Duc Le , Hung Tuan Nguyen , Masaki Nakagawa

Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in information extraction, which has a significant impact on downstream applications. Due to the lack of natural separators in Chinese, previous NER methods mostly relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yaqiong Qiao , Shixuan Peng

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental component in many applications, such as Web Search and Voice Assistants. Although deep neural networks greatly improve the performance of NER, due to the requirement of large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shining Liang , Ming Gong , Jian Pei , Linjun Shou , Wanli Zuo , Xianglin Zuo , Daxin Jiang

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing, concerned with identifying spans of text expressing references to entities. NER research is often focused on flat entities only (flat NER), ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Juntao Yu , Bernd Bohnet , Massimo Poesio

Inspired by recent advances in retrieval augmented methods in NLP~\citep{khandelwal2019generalization,khandelwal2020nearest,meng2021gnn}, in this paper, we introduce a $k$ nearest neighbor NER ($k$NN-NER) framework, which augments the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shuhe Wang , Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Tianwei Zhang , Rongbin Ouyang , Jiwei Li , Guoyin Wang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaolei Huang , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng

Taking word sequences as the input, typical named entity recognition (NER) models neglect errors from pre-processing (e.g., tokenization). However, these errors can influence the model performance greatly, especially for noisy texts like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Liyuan Liu , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang , Dandong Yin , Heng Ji , Xiang Ren , Shaowen Wang , Jiawei Han

Training a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model often involves fixing a taxonomy of entity types. However, requirements evolve and we might need the NER model to recognize additional entity types. A simple approach is to re-annotate entire…

Clinical Named Entity Recognition (CNER) aims to identify and classify clinical terms such as diseases, symptoms, treatments, exams, and body parts in electronic health records, which is a fundamental and crucial task for clinical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Jiahui Qiu , Qi Wang , Yangming Zhou , Tong Ruan , Ju Gao