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Named Entity Recognition (NER) from social media posts is a challenging task. User generated content that forms the nature of social media, is noisy and contains grammatical and linguistic errors. This noisy content makes it much harder for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu , M. Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Leili Farzinvash , M. A. Balafar , Cina Motamed

Named entity recognition (NER) is the task to identify mentions of rigid designators from text belonging to predefined semantic types such as person, location, organization etc. NER always serves as the foundation for many natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jing Li , Aixin Sun , Jianglei Han , Chenliang Li

Named Entity Recognition for social media data is challenging because of its inherent noisiness. In addition to improper grammatical structures, it contains spelling inconsistencies and numerous informal abbreviations. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Gustavo Aguilar , Suraj Maharjan , Adrian Pastor López-Monroy , Thamar Solorio

Named entity recognition (NER) from text has been a widely studied problem and usually extracts semantic information from text. Until now, NER from speech is mostly studied in a two-step pipeline process that includes first applying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Hemant Yadav , Sreyan Ghosh , Yi Yu , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We cast nested named entity recognition (NNER) as a sequence labeling task by leveraging prior work that linearizes constituency structures, effectively reducing the complexity of this structured prediction problem to straightforward token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz , David Vilares , Caio Corro , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

In this paper, we study a novel approach for named entity recognition (NER) and mention detection in natural language processing. Instead of treating NER as a sequence labelling problem, we propose a new local detection approach, which rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Mingbin Xu , Hui Jiang

Although modern named entity recognition (NER) systems show impressive performance on standard datasets, they perform poorly when presented with noisy data. In particular, capitalization is a strong signal for entities in many languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Stephen Mayhew , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a critical task that requires substantial annotated data, making it challenging in low-resource scenarios where label acquisition is expensive. While zero-shot and instruction-tuned approaches have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nanda Kumar Rengarajan , Jun Yan , Chun Wang

The MultiCoNER II task aims to detect complex, ambiguous, and fine-grained named entities in low-context situations and noisy scenarios like the presence of spelling mistakes and typos for multiple languages. The task poses significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Long Ma , Kai Lu , Tianbo Che , Hailong Huang , Weiguo Gao , Xuan Li

Social media platforms serve as invaluable sources of user-generated content, offering insights into various aspects of human behavior. Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a crucial role in analyzing such content by identifying and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Mosab Alfaqeeh

We address the task of Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) for noisy text. We present WikilinksNED, a large-scale NED dataset of text fragments from the web, which is significantly noisier and more challenging than existing news-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yotam Eshel , Noam Cohen , Kira Radinsky , Shaul Markovitch , Ikuya Yamada , Omer Levy

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

As the volume of long-form spoken-word content such as podcasts explodes, many platforms desire to present short, meaningful, and logically coherent segments extracted from the full content. Such segments can be consumed by users to sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Elise Jing , Kristiana Schneck , Dennis Egan , Scott A. Waterman

Named entity recognition (NER) models often struggle with noisy inputs, such as those with spelling mistakes or errors generated by Optical Character Recognition processes, and learning a robust NER model is challenging. Existing robust NER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Chaoyi Ai , Yong Jiang , Shen Huang , Pengjun Xie , Kewei Tu

In this paper, a combinative approach using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is proposed for audio clip Sound Event Detection (SED). The main idea begins with the use of NMF to approximate strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Chan Teck Kai , Chin Cheng Siong , Li Ye

As a fundamental natural language processing task and one of core knowledge extraction techniques, named entity recognition (NER) is widely used to extract information from texts for downstream tasks. Nested NER is a branch of NER in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifei Yang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

The most common Named Entity Recognizers are usually sequence taggers trained on fully annotated corpora, i.e. the class of all words for all entities is known. Partially annotated corpora, i.e. some but not all entities of some types are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Michael Strobl , Amine Trabelsi , Osmar Zaiane

This paper evaluates Few-Shot Prompting with Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition (NER). Traditional NER systems rely on extensive labeled datasets, which are costly and time-consuming to obtain. Few-Shot Prompting or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hédi Zeghidi , Ludovic Moncla

Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data. There have been efforts on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jingbo Shang , Liyuan Liu , Xiang Ren , Xiaotao Gu , Teng Ren , Jiawei Han