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Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a core natural language processing task in which pre-trained language models have shown remarkable performance. However, standard benchmarks like CoNLL 2003 do not address many of the challenges that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Iker García-Ferrero , Jon Ander Campos , Oscar Sainz , Ander Salaberria , Dan Roth

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a foundational NLP task that aims to provide class labels like Person, Location, Organisation, Time, and Number to words in free text. Named Entities can also be multi-word expressions where the additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Rudra Murthy , Pallab Bhattacharjee , Rahul Sharnagat , Jyotsana Khatri , Diptesh Kanojia , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This paper aims to quantify how this diversity impacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Isabelle Augenstein , Leon Derczynski , Kalina Bontcheva

Accurate Named Entity Recognition (NER) is crucial for various information retrieval tasks in industry. However, despite significant progress in traditional NER methods, the extraction of Complex Named Entities remains a relatively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Hsiu-Wei Yang , Abhinav Agrawal

Named Entity Recognition (NER) involves the identification and classification of named entities in unstructured text into predefined classes. NER in languages with limited resources, like French, is still an open problem due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Arjun Choudhry , Pankaj Gupta , Inder Khatri , Aaryan Gupta , Maxime Nicol , Marie-Jean Meurs , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Named entity recognition (NER) is a well-studied task in natural language processing. However, the widely-used sequence labeling framework is difficult to detect entities with nested structures. In this work, we view nested NER as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yao Fu , Chuanqi Tan , Mosha Chen , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang

Understanding searchers' queries is an essential component of semantic search systems. In many cases, search queries involve specific attributes of an entity in a knowledge base (KB), which can be further used to find query answers. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Arian Askari , Faegheh Hasibi , Mahmood Neshati

Acknowledgments in scientific papers may give an insight into aspects of the scientific community, such as reward systems, collaboration patterns, and hidden research trends. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the performance of different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Nina Smirnova , Philipp Mayr

We consider the problem of recognizing mentions of human senses in text. Our contribution is a method for acquiring labeled data, and a learning method that is trained on this data. Experiments show the effectiveness of our proposed data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Ndapa Nakashole

In this study, a novel method for extracting named entities and relations from unstructured text based on the table representation is presented. By using contextualized word embeddings, the proposed method computes representations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Youmi Ma , Tatsuya Hiraoka , Naoaki Okazaki

We study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) based on demonstration learning in low-resource scenarios. We identify two issues in demonstration construction and model training. Firstly, existing methods for selecting demonstration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Guowen Yuan , Tien-Hsuan Wu , Lianghao Xia , Ben Kao

Named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) are two important tasks in information extraction and retrieval (IE \& IR). Recent work has demonstrated that it is beneficial to learn these tasks jointly, which avoids the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 John Giorgi , Xindi Wang , Nicola Sahar , Won Young Shin , Gary D. Bader , Bo Wang

We present a simple few-shot named entity recognition (NER) system based on nearest neighbor learning and structured inference. Our system uses a supervised NER model trained on the source domain, as a feature extractor. Across several test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yi Yang , Arzoo Katiyar

Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a pivotal role in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks by identifying and classifying named entities (NEs) from unstructured data into predefined categories such as person, organization,…

We propose two neural network architectures for nested named entity recognition (NER), a setting in which named entities may overlap and also be labeled with more than one label. We encode the nested labels using a linearized scheme. In our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jana Straková , Milan Straka , Jan Hajič

Named Entity Recognition (NER) serves as a foundational component in many natural language processing (NLP) pipelines. However, current NER models typically output a single predicted label sequence without any accompanying measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Matthew Singer , Srijan Sengupta , Karl Pazdernik

The clinical named entity recognition (CNER) task seeks to locate and classify clinical terminologies into predefined categories, such as diagnostic procedure, disease disorder, severity, medication, medication dosage, and sign symptom.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yichao Zhou , Chelsea Ju , J. Harry Caufield , Kevin Shih , Calvin Chen , Yizhou Sun , Kai-Wei Chang , Peipei Ping , Wei Wang

Despite advancements of end-to-end (E2E) models in speech recognition, named entity recognition (NER) is still challenging but critical for semantic understanding. Previous studies mainly focus on various rule-based or attention-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Peng Wang , Yifan Yang , Zheng Liang , Tian Tan , Shiliang Zhang , Xie Chen

We present a novel approach for recognizing what we call targetable named entities; that is, named entities in a targeted set (e.g, movies, books, TV shows). Unlike many other NER systems that need to retrain their statistical models as new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Sandeep Ashwini , Jinho D. Choi

NER has been traditionally formulated as a sequence labeling task. However, there has been recent trend in posing NER as a machine reading comprehension task (Wang et al., 2020; Mengge et al., 2020), where entity name (or other information)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Anubhav Shrimal , Avi Jain , Kartik Mehta , Promod Yenigalla